> About 1 of every 5 eggs sold in America are laid by a Cal-Maine hen.

Jesus, what a lot of market concentration. Alone the lack of genetic diversity... because there's no way in hell that such a large company doesn't want only the most profitable chicken they can get, and only that kind of chicken.

> What the deputies remembered most about the Warwick farm, though, was the time in 2011 when a fire killed 300,000 hens.

And that is just as harrowing. How the fuck are such large stables even allowed, why does regulation not demand separate stables and enough clearance to prevent the spread of fire?

But it's just chicken, eh, who cares about them...