Also, we swim in chlorinated water, and our tap water is treated with chlorine, and we eat a metric TON of 'sodium chloride', so ... not prepared to freak out about 'chlorinated chicken' without a deeper understanding of just how 'bad' it is.

Is the 'brined' chicken I bought at the store the other day 'chlorinated'? I would tend to guess that it is, at least in some sense. Salt being 1/2 chlorine and all.

But that's just me

who would eat dead birds might be more troubled by something that might be "stuck" to them.

The chlorine itself is roughly akin to chlorine being used to make drinking water safe. It remains present in small enough quantities to not be a problem, and it kills germs both in water and in chicken.

The problem is that chicken producers who chlorinate at the end of the slaughtering process can then rely on that to kill germs and therefore allow cheaper and less sanitary conditions during the chickens' lives and during the slaughtering process.

If the chlorine does in fact kill all the germs, and you're not eating them ... I'm not entirely sure it matters?

I mean, as long as 'internally sick' chickens aren't part of our food, and we're just talking external germs. Which then die from chlorine.

If we are allowing actual sick chickens to be part of our food ... and treating them with chlorine, that becomes a lot more distressing to me, because that would involve a LOT of chlorine to kill off germs. Like it has get ALL in the tissue ... that's a nasty thought. You're not just 'lightly steaming' them with chlorine, you'd be like injecting the tissue with it. Who knows if you kill all the nasties.

is what I feed my dogs as part of their regular diet.

At times, they smell of bleach.

As far as I know, washing chicken parts with bleach post processing kills surface germs, so the meat is safer to eat, or lasts longer before smelling off.

I know the ones I buy, last for 2 days before going smelly, while the ones that smell like bleach initially, last a day or more longer.
Dogs don't mind either way.

But raw chicken is a known carrier of lots of surface germs, so bleach washing is for safety. Wash it thoroughly before cooking either way, and cook it thoroughly.

I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's effective in doing that, apparently.

tastes better and isn't a slimy as the grocery store variety. They buy from local farms and one larger processor with a high reputation.