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Big Chicken, Indebted Farmers
FromThe Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Sep 17, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
The US chicken industry is dominated by just a few very large, vertically integrated companies. They directly control every stage of chicken production from hatching to distribution, except that they outsource the riskiest stage--raising the birds from chick to mature bird--to independent farmers. In this episode, guest https://clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/staff/patti-truant-anderson (Patti Anderson) of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future describes this system, explains how it traps many farmers in debt, and tells us about the most recent effort to make the system more just for farmers.
After that: the farmer questionnaire!
Some links related to the chicken conversation and the proposed rule changes:
Patti suggests https://www.rafiusa.org/blog/usdas-new-poultry-industry-transparency-rule/ (this blog post) for a summary of the rule changes
https://civileats.com/2022/08/16/op-ed-justice-department-poultry-industry-tournament-payment-chicken-farmers-contracts-usda/ (A recent op-ed in Civil Eats )about the tournament system
Here's an official summary https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/06/08/2022-11998/poultry-growing-tournament-systems-fairness-and-related-concerns (of the proposed rule-changes)
After that: the farmer questionnaire!
Some links related to the chicken conversation and the proposed rule changes:
Patti suggests https://www.rafiusa.org/blog/usdas-new-poultry-industry-transparency-rule/ (this blog post) for a summary of the rule changes
https://civileats.com/2022/08/16/op-ed-justice-department-poultry-industry-tournament-payment-chicken-farmers-contracts-usda/ (A recent op-ed in Civil Eats )about the tournament system
Here's an official summary https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/06/08/2022-11998/poultry-growing-tournament-systems-fairness-and-related-concerns (of the proposed rule-changes)
Released:
Sep 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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