How much do you think you pay for cheap chicken?

Scott Marlow, Executive Director of RAFI-USA, says it’s more than you think. In our first full day of filming, we got a look at the ways contract chicken production is subsidized – here’s just SOME of the stuff that’s not included in that supermarket ticket:

– taxpayer $ that goes toward university research for breeding chickens that get fatter faster, and technologies for production
– taxpayer $ for commodity programs (for grain subsidies) = cheap grains for livestock feed
– taxpayer $ behind gov. guaranteed loans that let the banks keep lending big for new chicken houses despite the risk
– taxpayer $ for cleanup of environmental damages from excess nutrient buildup and waste