RAFI Staff

On Sunday, HBO aired a new episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the poultry industry. RAFI’s Executive Director, Scott Marlow, as well as several RAFI staff members worked closely with show producers to provide important information about the topic.

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In 1999, The Baltimore Sun ran a three-part series on the poultry industry and the farmers caught up in the abusive contracts and paralyzing debt that have since become all too common in contract poultry production. The series began with “The Plucking of the American Chicken Farmer,” which detailed the ruination of poultry farmers and pinpointed how some major companies were even cheating their growers. Collectively, the series presented 10 months of investigative work conducted by reporters Dan Fesperman and Kate Shatzkin.