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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)

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The Chicken of Tomorrow

We're all eating a kind of genetic progeny of the original chicken of to morrow. The u s information agency were searching for concrete forms of propaganda to display america's wealth. Te supermarket is not just a retail box, but actually the end point of an industrial supply chain. A super market can't exist without the inputs of mass produced foods....

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