Do the chickens go into a wet bath for chilling?Updated 8 months ago

No, our chickens are air chilled.

The birds are placed in a gigantic fridge until they are cooled down. Not touching, no bleach (aka chlorine), no extra fluid in the muscles.

Other benefits of air chilled: helps intensify flavor, keeps skin dry, saves thousands of gallons of water

Wet bath allow the processor to process thousand of chicken but at a huge cost:

• Tank is fully chlorinated (i.e, bleach), which the chicken meat will absorb

• All the birds are in the same tank and touching, potentially introducing pathogens to each other

• Liquid (i.e., chlorine and any pathogens) from the tank ends up in the packaging with the chickens (that pink juice).