Big Chicken, Indebted Farmers

The Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers by Jordan Marr

Sep 17, 202247:05Arts

The US chicken industry is dominated by just a few very large, vertically integrated companies. They directly control every stage of chicken production from hatching to distribution, except that they outsource the riskie...

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