Now the USDA is finalizing a proposal that would allow poultry companies to accelerate their processing lines, with the aim of removing pathogens from the food supply and making plants more ...

Obe and Owens’ part of the project is to test the new technology from Micro-Tracers and evaluate its ability to disinfect poultry scalder water onsite with an emphasis on monitoring the levels ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are … ...

If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you’re an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.” The editorial board of USA Today has also weighed in , supporting greater protections for ...

Dead birds go into the scalder, where a few turns in 138-degree water loosens the feathers. From there it's into the picker, a rotating metal drum with rubber knobs that plucks the birds clean.

If you've ever wondered how boneless chicken parts end up that way, take a peek inside one of the 4,000 or so poultry processing plants in the U.S. Workers man massive assembly lines to scald ...

The Mobile Poultry Processing Unit hopes it can provide a model for local farmers that want to raise and process locally ... And you don't want to be alive when you go into the scalder or the plucker.