April 20/Athens, Ga./Athens Banner Herald -- Salmonella shows up less on organic farms than it does on conventional farms, claims Walid Alali, an assistant professor at UGA's College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. Alahi visited seven farms in North Carolina -- three organic and four conventional -- to perform his research, which points to organic chickens as healthier birds than their conventionally raised brethren.
"Because chickens spread salmonella horizontally, when there are fewer birds, it spreads less," he said.