Chicken catch crew

Randy Olson

National Geographic

they start work at midnight when the chickens are asleep. And with only the dull red light from a careening forklift, workers scoop up eight chickens in both hands and fling them across the barn into 6 by 8 inch cubicles. As the newly awakened chicken is being flung, every orifice in its body opens, covering the men in multicolored goo. The barns are only scraped out once a year. Working for minimum wage, the men wear flimsy paper masks to combat the level of nitrogen in the air.

Randy Olson , " Chicken catch crew," in POYi Archive, Item #29189, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/29189 (accessed November 21, 2024).