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Comedian Mo Gilligan surrounded by stacks of fictional Mo’s Fried Chicken boxes and a live hen, in the key art for Netflix’s Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
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Big Chicken: what Mo Gilligan's Netflix documentary reveals about your fried chicken

Netflix's Big Chicken follows Mo Gilligan's 28-day fried chicken binge into a hard look at factory farming. What the documentary gets right — and what's next.
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Chickens inside an intensive broiler barn at a farm supplying Costco. Credit: Mercy For Animals
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Costco's 'organic' chicken: what's really behind the label

A Costco chicken supplier is accused of cruelty, broken organic standards and biosecurity failures. We unpack the investigation and what it means for shoppers.
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A family sharing a home-cooked roast chicken dinner around the kitchen table
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Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds

A new FAO report shows global meat supply has nearly quadrupled since the 1960s, driven by chicken and pork. We unpack what this shift means for health, climate and chicken welfare, and how labels can obscure the reality of modern poultry farming.
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Chickens struggling to breathe whilst in a controlled atomsphere stunning machine
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Chicken gassing in the UK: the ‘humane’ slaughter method hidden in plain sight

Most people have no idea how chickens are ‘humanely’ stunned and killed. Recent UK government data shows CO2 gas is overwhelmingly the industry standard
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