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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has reportedly purchased a major stake in Marel, a leading chicken processing factory and machinery manufacturer based in the Netherlands. The company's automated systems are used in over 90 countries. The hosts frame this as a significant development in the ongoing "War on Chicken," noting the shift toward robotic processing.
The "War on Chicken" continues with a massive fire at a Weld County, Colorado poultry farm that killed 500,000 chickens. NPR reports on the rise of "Big Chicken" in Texas, using military terminology like "fallout" and "blowback" to describe the environmental and social impact of industrial chicken farming.
The War on Chicken and Dizzying Processing Speeds
The hosts expose a coordinated media campaign against the poultry industry, tracing the phrase "dizzying 175 birds per minute" through thousands of news articles. They highlight how the China Daily used this PETA-driven press release to claim Chinese food is safer than American food, demonstrating the global impact of unverified "cut-and-paste" journalism.
