[mrec]

Yes, from what I've seen this is the primary objection (aside from realpolitik considerations i.e. wanting to keep agricultural prices high).

Salad has routinely been chlorine-washed in Europe for years, and nobody complains about that.

[guitarbill]

I hope most people would agree chickens are a bit more sentient than salad.

[pintxo]

They are about as sentient as the salad when this washing we are talking about occurs. (I really hope I understood it correctly that this happens after they have been killed)

[guitarbill]

The point isn't when the washing occurs, it's in what conditions they have to be kept in before that to either require or not require washing.