Don’t Dress Up Your Chickens for Halloween. (Yes, you read that right.) – LBF
Credit: Mario Villafuerte
OK. This is a thing? Because this shouldn’t be a thing. And now the Centers for Disease Control is involved.
This is why we can’t have nice things:
The US Center for Disease Control is warning people not to dress up their chickens for Halloween due to a risk of catching salmonella.
In case you read that wrong, the federal agency isn’t telling you what not to wear on the 31st, but not to stick your pet chickens in costumes.
Apparently it’s commonplace among those who raise chickens to dress them for Halloween.
The CDC says that handling the birds is contributing to an outbreak which has affected 92 people so far in 29 states.
Lauren Beckham Falcone is the co-host of Bob & LBF in the Morning. Formerly an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald, she credits her current success as a pop culture commentator to watching too much TV as a kid and scouring the internet too much as an adult. LBF is a regular contributor to NECN and is an honorary board member at the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. Lauren lives in Canton with her husband Dave and her daughter Lucy. Lauren writes about trending topics, New England destinations, and seasonal DIY.
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