The document discusses the inhumane conditions factory farmed chickens are subjected to from birth. It describes chickens being born coated in animal waste, barely able to stand or flap their wings due to selective breeding for meat that has caused leg deformities. The chickens have also been heavily dosed with antibiotics and growth hormones, radically changing their appearance from just 40-50 years ago.

1. Audience:
Purpose:
They [chickens] know nothing from the moment of their birth,
but the dung of the animals above them, coating their feathers
and beaks and eyes... [They] can barely stand. They have
completely lost the use of their legs, they can't flap. They have
been bred for their plumpness, their breasts. But they've also
been so heavily saturated with antibiotics and growth hormones
- that they no longer resemble the animals that they looked like
forty or fifty years ago.
Paul Solotaroff, in a radio interview on the topic of factory
farms The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC