This is quite a funny article. It is about modernizing how to herd chickens up for the slaughter. Without giving too much away, here is a small excerpt. Years ago, they tried different ways of automating chicken catching. Here is one:

Early devices included the chicken vacuum, which sucked up birds and shot them through tubes to waiting trucks. But the birds tended to plug up the tubes and turn somersaults as they traveled inside the contraption. "We had too many die on us," recalls Buddy Burruss, vice president of operations at Tip Top Poultry Inc. of Marietta, Ga., which tested and quickly abandoned the pneumatic approach two decades ago.