A Thousand Miles in Tennessee

While a blistered sun bore down in Texas, I escaped to Tennessee and covered a thousand miles over four summer days. It was a reconnaissance mission to see if relocation from Texas made sense. I visited several plots of land, while basking in the sunshine of this beautiful, bucolic state. Along my travels, I discovered an ugly reality hidden in plain sight—animal agriculture’s miserable stench. I would like to take you through some aspects of the life of a factory farmed animal reared in a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), who is transported in a cramped truck across state lines, and ultimately killed in a slaughterhouse.

A Nice Looking Chicken Factory

I. A Nice Looking CAFO from the Outside
These are chicken sheds in Readyville, a small town southeast of Nashville, TN. The facility had cameras and barbed wire fencing, and I could only snap a few quick shots before arousing suspicion. Note the contrast of free grazing horses lapping up sunshine, while the lesser beings—chickens—are crowded inside dark, dank sheds.

Credit: We Animals Media