Cynthia Gill's bird barn is hallowed ground. Strangers aren't allowed inside, and she only visits to feed and check on her 97 birds when she absolutely needs to. Because breeding birds is tricky ...

“If these chickens could vote, they’d want to be here, not at Foster Farms,” Arlin Strange says as a few hundred members of the putative electorate mill about his feet. “Here they’re guaranteed two ...

You feel hundreds of their pea-size eyeballs on you immediately, tracking every move and waiting to lock stares with you. There are bursts of color that do not belong in a cow pasture: bright blues ...