We eat about double chicken as we do beef per capita in the U.S., says David Frum. The size of the beef industry is about $85 billion, and that doesn't even include the meat packing industry. "The companies or the entities raising cattle are these little, mostly cattle farms run by a single family," he says.
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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