8 week old chickens put straight into market

- A chicken to go to market used to take a year in America
- That number went down to 4 months
- It then dropped to 14 weeks, then to 12 weeks
Today even ‘organically’ raised chickens go to market in 8 weeks, the farmers “signs a contract that he will not try to find out what's in the food”

“You know how long we take now for even organically grown chickens to go from the hatched egg to the market?

When I first started doing this 15 years ago, I told people how alarming it was that we were getting a chick to market in four months instead of a year. And then it went from 18 weeks to 16 weeks to 14 weeks to 12 weeks.

And now I just recently read a report that even organically raised chickens are going to market in 8 weeks.

Now, the poultry industry, with the backing of our government and with this backing of legislation, insists that there are no hormones used in the poultry industry.

Then how? What accounts for that change? The trick is, in the field, when a modern farmer buys eggs, he buys fertilized eggs and signs a contract to buy the food only from that egg supplier. And these are big multinational companies.

He also signs a contract that he will not try to find out what's in the food.

And we are not allowed. It's proprietary. No, we don't use hormones, but we won't tell you what we give them. And your government not only accepts, but enforces that.”

- Al Sears M.D.