Full episode
116: Poultry Slam 1998
Act Three

People Who Love Chickens And Hate This American Life

Last year, a woman named Karen Davis started a national letter writing campaign to try to get This American Life to stop the very program we are broadcasting today—the annual Poultry Slam. In this portion of our show, she explains what it is that we just don't understand about poultry, and why the whole idea of this poultry show was wrong-headed from the start. (10 minutes)

Song:

“Chickens” by Harry Belafonte