He couldn’t resist.

In response to a N.Y. Times column about meat that didn’t have much to do with safety, Mike Brown, president of the U.S. National Chicken Council writes, “A system that supports 25,000 rural farm families who raise chickens and produces the safest, most affordable and wholesome chicken on the planet isn’t a racket — it’s a miracle.”

Show consumers the data so we can decide who is the safest.