Slaughterhouse Workers Suffering From Neurological Disease

Slaughterhouse Workers Suffering From Neurological Disease

This reminds me of an X-Files episode called “Our Town” to an uncanny degree. The plot takes place in the small city of Dudley, Arkansas, home to Chaco Chicken’s factory farm headquarters, where a rare and incurable neurological disease, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is plaguing some of the people in the town, and particularly the workers at the chicken slaughterhouse. As it turns out, the entire community is in a cult that has been practicing ritualized cannibalism, lead by the owner of Chaco Chicken. He apparently learned of a technique to live forever by consuming human flesh from a native tribe when his plane crashed during World War II in a remote jungle. The partially consumed corpses were being fed to the chickens, the rest were being dumped in a bloody river where all of the spare chicken parts go after they’re stripped.