08/01/2026
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Costco Organic Chicken Isn’t Organic: A new investigation reveals an "organic" and "certified humane" farm that raises birds for Pilgrim's Pride, a major supplier of Costco's certified organic chicken, severely neglecting and abusing animals.
During his roughly 2.5-month stint at the farm, the investigator documented unsanitary living conditions, along with severe neglect — like birds with twisted necks and open wounds — and disturbing cases of outright abuse, including the farm manager leaving birds to die slowly in deadpiles, and euthanizing birds by bludgeoning them with PVC pipes and rakes. In one instance, the farm manager crushed a bird with a bucket, and in another, slammed a chicken against a wall. "It was every day that the manager would be bludgeoning chickens to death or burying them alive," said the investigator.
Such cruelty has been found over and over and over again in the U.S. poultry industry, including numerous past investigations of farms that supply Pilgrim's Pride.
What's notable about this new investigation is that it exposes problems within two beloved, and supposedly more ethical, institutions in American life: Costco — with its higher employee wages and stated commitments to progressive causes — and organic farming, which has long been perceived as a more moral sector of the food industry.
The investigation also reveals the immense shortcomings of governmental oversight, corporate animal welfare guidelines, and third-party inspectors, because at each step of the supply chain — from the farm, to the chicken supplier, to the organic certifiers and American Humane Society auditors, and finally, to Costco and other corporate buyers — severe animal cruelty appeared to slip through the cracks. The investigation illustrates that organic and even basic welfare standards are only as good as their enforcement.
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