The meat industry, whatever they produce, whether it be beef, chicken, pork, we eat it. And these chicken companies have been able to just ramp up production with bigger birds faster to market. You can get a bird to market now in about seven weeks and it's twice as big as it was in the 20s and 30s. A lot of it is just a supply thing.
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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