Jonathan Safran Foer

Recent history has averaged a pandemic every twenty-seven and a half years,

the most devastating disease event the world has ever known, and one of the greatest health
threats before us today, has everything to do with the health of the world’s farmed
animals, birds most of all

Of course, consumers might notice that their chickens don’t taste quite right — how
good could a drug-stuffed, disease-ridden, shit-contaminated animal possibly taste? — but the
birds will be injected (or otherwise pumped up) with “broths” and salty solutions to give them
what we have come to think of as the chicken look, smell, and taste.