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In the news . . .

• US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation’s first ‘lab-grown’ meat -- MPRnews (21 June 2023)
  
  
• USDA Plans Major Reforms to Curb Salmonella in Poultry -- ProPublica (14 October 2022)
  
  
• The Fried Chicken Inflation Index -- The New York Times (20 August 2022)
  
  
• US bird flu outbreak: millions of birds culled in ‘most inhumane way available’ -- The Guardian (06 June 2022)
  
  
• US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker -- The Guardian (28 April 2022)
  
  
• Rare footage from a factory farm reveals the brutal cost of cheap chicken -- The New York Times (11:48; 10 February 2022)
  
  
• How chickens took over America’s dinner plates, in one chart -- VOX (19 February 2021)
  
  
• Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic -- The Guardian (18 October 2022)
  
  
• Vertical Integration -- National Chicken Council (10 February 2020)
  
  
• McDonald’s enters the chicken sandwich wars started by Popeyes -- QUARTZ (21 February 2021)
  
  
• France passes ‘sensory heritage’ law after plight of Maurice the noisy rooster -- The Guardian (21 January 2021)
  
  
• Here are the 10 Plant-Based Food Trends That Will Be Big in 2021 -- The Beet (31 December 2020)
  
  
• I tried the world's first no-kill, lab-grown chicken burger -- The Guardian (04 December 2021)
  
  
• 'A fowl of the law': men sentenced for cooking chicken in Yellowstone hot spring -- The Guardian (10 November 2020)
  
  
• Trade talks: Why chicken, cheese, and cod are a tricky menu -- BBCtravel (09 September 2020)
  
  
• Chicken rehoming charity gets 52,000 lockdown hen requests -- BBCNews (20 August 2020)
  
  
• The poultry workers on the coronavirus front line: 'If one of us gets sick, we all get sick' -- The Guardian (17 April 2020)
  
  
• Is the US chicken industry cheating its farmers? -- The Guardian (02 August 2019)
  
  
• KFC develops 3D-printed cultured meat hybrid nuggets for Russian market -- FOODnavigator (20 July 2020)
  
  
• KFC will sell plant-based fried chicken in these cities -- CNN Business (16 July 2020)
  
  
• Why plant-based ‘chicken’ is the alternative meat trend that will define 2020. Here's why. -- Business Insider (15 March 2020)
  
  
• The GM chickens that lay eggs with anti-cancer drugs -- BBCNews (28 January 2019)
  
  
• Why your chicken wings mean we’ve entered a new epoch -- The Guardian (10 January 2019)
  
  
• Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown -- The Guardian (10 October 2018)
  
  
• 'Dirty meat': Shocking hygiene failings discovered in US pig and chicken plants -- The Guardian (21 February 2018)
  
  
• Vast animal-feed crops to satisfy our meat needs are destroying planet -- The Guardian (05 October 2017)
  
  
• UK's top supplier of supermarket chicken fiddles food safety dates -- TheGuardian (28 September 2017)
  
  
• Video: Under Contract: Farmers and the Fine Print-- (ca. 75 min., 2017, UM Duluth Martin Library Multimedia DVD HD9437.A2 U53 2017
  
  
• Industrial meat production is killing our seas. It's time to change our diets -- The Guardian (04 August 2017)
  
  
• Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico -- The Guardian (01 August 2017)
  
  
• Fowl play: the chicken farmers being bullied by big poultry -- The Guardian (22 April 2017)
  
  
• The ‘exotic’ foods with a secret homegrown history -- BBCfuture (31 January 2017)
  
  
• Why Japan celebrates Christmas with KFC -- BBCcapital (19 December 2016)
  
  
• Feathers fly off local chicken market -- IOL (02 September 2016)
  
  
• How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe? -- TheGuardian (24 August 2016)
  
  
• In quest for happier chickens, Perdue shifts how birds live and die -- MPRNews (27 June 2016)
  
  
• Bill Gates launches chicken plan to help Africa poor -- BBC News (09 June 2016)
  
  
• 'Locally Laid': The story of a very plucky chicken farm -- MPRNews (29 February 2016)
  
  
• The Trouble with Iowa: Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses -- Richard Manning, Harper's Magazine (February 2016)
  
  
• What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China and Climate Change -- The New York Times, Sunday Review (05 February 2016)
  
  
• The chicken shop mile and how Britain got fat -- The Guardian (28 January 2016)
  
  
• Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner for Humans -- New York Times (18 January 2016)
  
  
• Chickens Reveal Evolution Much Faster Than Thought -- Discovery News (27 October 2015)
  
  
• Southern fairs won't press broiler industry's bird flu luck -- MPRNews (20 September 2015)
  
  
• Here’s What Happens When You Rewind the Clock on Chicken Domestication -- Science (15 September 2015)
  
  
• The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head -- BBC News (10 September 2015)
  
  
• The Ancient City Where People Decided to Eat Chickens -- NPR (20 July 2015)
  
  
• How Did the Chicken Cross the Sea? -- Past Horizons (28 March 2015)
  
  
• Ancient DNA: Barnyard chickens living just a few hundred years ago looked far different from today's chickens -- Science Daily (18 April 2014)
  
  
• Chicken DNA Challenges Theory That Polynesians Beat Europeans to Americas -- National Geographic News (18 March 2014)
  
  
• Polynesian chickens tell tales of ancient migration -- Past Horizons (19 March 2014)
  
  
• Study: The Chicken Didn't Cross The Pacific To South America -- NPR (18 March 2014)
  
  
• The Unhealthy Meat Market -- Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times (12 March 2014)
  
  
• Leonard, Christopher. The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
  
  
• McDonald's wants you see how McNuggets are made -- Maria Godoy, MPR (06 February 2014)
  
  
• Meat’s large water footprint: why raising livestock and poultry for meat is so resource-intensive -- FoodTank (December 2013)
  
  
• Are Chicks Brighter Than Babies? -- Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times (15 October 2013)
  
  
• Q&A: H7N9 bird flu -- -- BBCNews (3 May 2013)
  

• A Brief History of Buffalo Wings -- Claire Suddath, Time US (03 September 2009)
  
  
• All Chickens Descend from South East Asia -- Anneli K. Brisbane, The Telegraph (27 July 2012)
  
  
• [video] American Meat
  (85 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BJ52.5 .A44 2011 DVD)
  (UM Duluth Library Multimedia Guide BJ52.5 .A44 2011 DVD)
  
  
  • Food Safety News Review at
    <http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/09/american-meat-latest-film-to-join-food-debate/>
    
    
• Araucana (chicken) [not to be confused with the Ameraucana and Easter Egger chickens] -- Wikipedia
  • Ameraucana
  • Easter Egger
  • List of chicken breeds
    
    
• Belgium offers chickens to waste-cutting households -- BBC News (26 February 2010)
  
  
• Buff Orpington (chicken) -- Wikipedia
  • Orpington (chicken)
  • List of chicken breeds
    
    
• Cheep Chic: Suburban Chickens -- Parade (14 November 2010)
  
  
• Davis, Karen. Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry, Rev. Ed. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2007.
  
  
• French village Pince to hand out chickens to cut waste -- BBCNews (28 March 2012)
  [cf., Belgium offers chickens to waste-cutting households -- BBC News (26 February 2010)]
  
  
• Hamilton, Jennifer A. "Year of the Chicken." Science as Culture 23, no. 1 (2014): 124-128.
  
  
• Henderson's Chicken Breed Chart -- John R. Henderson
  
  
• Hess, John L., and Karen Hess. The Taste of America. NY: Viking / Grossman Publishers, 1977.
  
  
• Home Processing of Poultry -- University of Minnesota Extension
  
  
• Kirby, David. Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. NY: St. Martin's, 2010.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.
  
  
• Leonard, Christopher. The Meat Racket: The Scret Takeover of America's Food Business. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
  
  
• Martindale's Nutrition Center Dairy, Meat, Fish, Poultry, Cereals, Fruit, Vegetalbes, Herbs etc.
  
  
• Meet the Animals: Chickens -- Farm Sanctuary
  
  
• Ogle, Maureen. In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
  
  
• Raising Chickens -- Self Sufficient Life
  
  
• Salatin, Joel.This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World. NY: Hachette, 2011.
  
  
• Schatzker, Mark. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
  
  
• Somerset knitters make jumpers for bald chickens -- BBC News (25 February 2010)
  
  
• Swartz, Marvin. Tyson from Farm to Market. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.
  
  
• 'The Ladies' of Bloomington are no longer welcome -- Mary Jane Smetanka, Star-Tribune (17 March 2010)
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• United Poultry Concerns
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
  • Animal Products
    • Poultry & Eggs
      
      
• Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal. NY: Grove, 2010 [1986].
  
  
• Warner, Melanie. Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal. NY: Scribner, 2013.
  
  
• Zaraska, Marta. Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat. NY: Basic Books, 2016.
  
  

Videos

• CHICKENS by Martin Hudspeth -- BBC Video Nation (04 April 2003)
  
  
• The Natural History of the Chicken -- PBS (60 min., 2001)
  
  
• Under Contract: Farmers and the Fine Print -- (ca. 75 min., 2017, UM Duluth Martin Library Multimedia DVD HD9437.A2 U53 2017
  

 

  Somerset knitters make jumpers for bald chickens
  BBC News (25 February 2010)

Buff Orpington rooster
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