Something I thought you should know about your chicken

I really don't want to be one of those vegetarians that is always going around judging meat-eaters, feigning superiority, tainting every bite of your chicken biscuit with grizzly details about how it was manufactured, but there is something I think you should know.  It's like this.  If you were having dinner at a friend's house, and I knew that friend was planning on marinating their chicken in (used) toilet water before she cooked it up for you, after which up to a tenth of the mass of the chicken was toilet water, wouldn't you want me to tell you about it?

This is what happens to your chicken sometime after the slaughter and before the eating:

Next the chickens go to a massive refrigerated tank of water, where thousands of birds are communally cooled.  Tom Devine, from the Government Accountability Project, has said that the "water in these tanks has been aptly named 'fecal soup' for all the filth and bacteria floating around.  By immersing clean, healthy birds in the same tank with dirty ones, you're practically assuring cross-contamination."

While a significant number of European and Canadian poultry processors employ air-chilling systems, 99 percent of US poultry producers have stayed with water-immersion systems and fought lawsuits from both consumers and the beef industry to continue the outmoded use of water-chilling.  It's not hard to figure out why.  Air-chilling reduces the weight of a bird's carcass, but water-chilling causes a dead bird to soak up water (the same water known as 'fecal soup').

...After industry consultation, the new law of the land allows slightly more than 11 percent liquid absorption (the exact percentage is indicated in small print on the packaging-have a look next time).

-Taken from Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, p 135.

This is why "Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator of fecal contamination) and between 39 and 75 percent of chickens in retail stores are still infected" (also from Eating Animals, p 131).  FECAL SOUP.  They say boiling it kills all the bacteria, right?  So as long as your friend boils that used toilet water, you don't stand to suffer any health risks.  If you're ok with that, good luck to ya.