Fast food has promoted chicken consumption to obscene levels. Fast food bolstered by this wave of chicken being the new healthy product. Chicken is a food that doesn't really have any religious bans on it. It's not like pork where some people see it as unclean.
Americans love beef, and always have. But when it comes to the meat they actually choose to eat, chicken takes the crown. Bloomberg’s Matt Townsend and Leslie Patton join this episode to explain how poultry came to dominate the American diet. And historian Emelyn Rude shares what the past can tell us about where the industry goes from here.
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