The spray's no giant step but a tiny one, even a misstep, and most likely revealed to counter Consumer Reports and quiet the consumer mind. Friday's NY Times points out: 1. hens used to give their chicks their immunities to salmonella by living with them, the eager young things scratching where mama pooped; 2. an ever-so-pure carcass is put in the fecal soup with all others in state-of-the-art slaughterhouses. These may help explain how 'free-range' bodies are AT LEAST as full of the organisms as factory-raised: the chicks may have been incubated and bought factory-style (and the free-range may not be all that free), and the slaughterhouse takes care of any wholesome results. Ain't progress grand? Pet