Intensively factory-farmed chickens, forced to grow abnormally quickly in cramped conditions, choose feed containing painkillers: (BBC News)

...when given a choice of two feeds, one containing the pain-relieving drug carprofen, and one without, more lame birds than fit birds chose to eat the drugged feed ... And the more lame the chicken, the more its intake of drugged feed increased.

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