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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Political animals (with Leah Garcés)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Chicken Industry Is Subsidized and Protected by the FDIC

The chicken industry is subsidized in general, including these private companies are subsidized. Agriculture in general is subsidized and protected. And this is part of that arrangement. There's 9 billion chickens defecating per year; they're all pooping, and that poop goes onto our fields. The waste is often not disposed of well, and the communities really suffer.

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