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Although President Herbert Hoover promised Depression-era Americans "a chicken in every pot," it was only after World War II that poultry production expanded into today's fowl popularity. Most chicken is currently produced by the United States, Brazil, the Russian Federation, Mexico, Japan, and China. TABLE 18.3 Cuts of Chicken in Increasing Order of Fat Content per 3 '/i-ounce (100 gram) Serving (Roasted, No Skin) Cut Calories Fat Total/Saturated (grams) Protein (grams) Cholesterol Omega-3 (grams) Breast 165 3.6/1.0 31.0 85 .05 Drumstick 172 5.7/1.5 28.3 93 .

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USA Today (7/8/96) reported that "under the new system, called Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, companies in every step of meat and poultry production must identify the points in their production where contamination is most likely to occur and then create plans for preventing it or removing or killing the contaminants." Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the rules "put the lives and health of Americans before the fears and misgivings of the meat and poultry industry.

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New York Times, 1999)26 It has only been since 1995 that fluoroquinolones began to be used in United States poultry production. Before then, fluoroquinolone resistance was unknown in the United States, except for people who had traveled to one of the few countries that permitted their use in animal agriculture or had previously taken the drugs for illness.2 But since then, resistant strains have been emerging at an alarming rate in the United States in both poultry and humans.

Animal Industry Foundation)1' What we know_ U.S. poultry production controlled by the eight largest chicken processors in 1978: 25.3 percent" In 1998:61.5 percent15 Net worth of chicken producer Donald Tyson: $1.2 billion'6 Average hourly wage of Tyson poultry processing plant worker: $5.27" Only entities producing more chicken than Tyson Foods: The countries of China and Brazil18 U.S. turkey market controlled by the six largest processors: 50 percent19 U.S. beef market controlled by the four largest beef-packers: 81 percent20 U.S.

In 1999, he wrote, "Raising cattle in huge feedlots, consolidating dairy farms into confinement units with 1,000-10,000 cows, consolidating swine and poultry production into huge confinement units as the trend is now . . . [is] a frontal assault on the environment, with massive groundwater and air pollution problems."' \\/here's Our Water Going? Life on Earth began in water, and has always depended for its very existence on water. With water, life can flourish; deserts can be transformed into gardens, lush forests, or thriving metropolises like Tel Aviv or Los Angeles. Without water, we die.

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FROM FACTORY-FARM TO YOU PART 2: DRUGS More than 40 years ago, a scientist at American Cyanamid made a discovery that would help revolutionize meat and poultry production in America: baby chicks given feed that contained traces of the company's new antibiotic drug, chlortetracycline, gained 10 to 20 percent more weight than chicks fed a normal diet. Pigs fed antibiotic-laced feed had even more impressive growth rates. & ECCS Antibiotic feed additives first went on sale in the early 1950s.

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This would be fine if they also did something to change the actual conditions. Regrettably, only a few of them do. Many consumers understandably look to health food stores and "natural" brands for better eggs and poultry products, hoping that if they buy chicken and eggs from a health food store, they will be assured of not eating the misery of factory farms. 1,-- -;r - u if L.~ «ai IE ^ £ -inr ^iipffitin, minimi . .£ .'istit**" ,, i'f ^ „*.. ...A _ .i... Jilt P« Turkey accommodations aren't exactly spacious.

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