The results are an echo of Upton Sinclair's 1906 book, The Jungle on horrid and unsafe conditions in the meat packing industry. America, 104 years later:
# Manure piled so high (4 to 8 feet) that it forced open doors to manure pits under the hens, allowing "open access to wildlife or domesticated animals."
# Live mice in many of the egg-laying houses.
# Flies, both "live and dead" that were "too numerous to count," as well as "live and dead maggots" beyond counting.
Of the two, to my layman eyes, Decoster's factory appears much worse as there aren't nearly as many violations cited for Bethel's operation, but the bit near the end about a flowing river of chicken feces certainly indicates they're not getting an unfair deal being mixed up in this.
