I’m getting a little sick of people in this thread not understanding that they’re combining two arguments into one.

Argument 1: Chlorinated chicken is bad, because it’s unsafe/disease ridden/etc.

Argument 2: Animal welfare standards for poultry farms aren’t strict enough.

Argument 1 just isn’t true. Even European scientists agree. So people in this thread are in favor of argument 2. But they’re presenting it as if argument 1 is true.

And there are lots of comments here from people who do genuinely have the impression that chlorinated chicken itself is the issue and not the animal welfare/ethics issues. You could have the most humane poultry farm on the planet and still use chlorine as a preventative measure (like farmers do for other types of foods). So ethical poultry farms and chlorinated chicken aren’t mutually exclusive. It just seems to me that people are arguing in bad faith and taking advantage of the fact that “chlorinated chicken” sounds scary. And actually chlorinating the chicken is safer from a food-safety perspective.