This could only be news to the vegan types who want everybody to look as much like concentration camp refugees as they do. That’s why you wash chicken off before anything else and then cook it thoroughly. Letting it soak in salty water before cooking also helps and enhances the cooked flavor. Anyone who’s ever been through a poultry processing facility knows that what comes out of the plant is dripping in bacteria.
A friend of mine once told me that new vets fresh out
of school would often work for chicken processors as
inspectors because they couldn’t afford to open their
own practices. When a chicken with a cancer would come
down the line they would cut out the cancerous part
and send the rest down the line.
So I suppose the moral of the story is BUY WHOLE CHICKENS.
Then cook the hell out of them.