HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” host explains that many poultry growers live below the poverty line while an exploitative chicken industry forces inhumane conditions for both the farmers and the chickens themselves, all the while raking in mountains of cash.

“How can the people who make the meat we eat the most,” asks Oliver, “barely be making a living?”

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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