America Is Divided Over Everything...Except Chicken
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The History of Chicken
Before modern veterinary science, chickens had a lovely tendency to just die in any sort of large flock. So basically for most of American history, chicken was just this rare luxury food that maybe you'd have once a week. Over the course of the 20th century, firstly, veterinarians and breeders and farmers solved the fact that chickens would always die. They were kept in enclosed spaces that prevented the transfer of avian flus.
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