date:Dec 29, 2012
onvenient and appealing, further-processed products transformed the market for chicken, pushing consumption from 34 pounds per person in 1965 to 84 pounds last year. But pressure from that new demand transformed the industry as well, turning it from a loose confederation of many family farms into a small set of massive conglomerates with questionable labor and environmental records.
Its a mixed legacy for a man who wanted only to increase the market power of upstate New Yorks poultry farmersmen