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The West’s industrial-sized chicken farms could be as dangerous as any wet market

18 July 2020

9:00 AM

18 July 2020

9:00 AM

Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory Paul R. Josephson

Polity, pp.252, 20

It wasn’t Henri IV’s Sunday poule au pot or Herbert Hoover’s less sexy-sounding chicken in every pot, but even in the mid-20th century chicken was a rare treat, not a cheap meal. What has happened to transform the noble Gallus gallus domesticus into what Paul R. Josephson startlingly calls ‘a genetically formed meat machine’? Chicken is a serious subject, even when it’s not the chlorine-washed kind the US President wants to foist on us.

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