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    The Salt
    Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (left) and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush share a light moment together outside the White House in 1990. Could they be discussing chicken?
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    Chicken Diplomacy: How President Bush Went For The Gut In The Former USSR

    Dec 06, 2018
    The first Bush administration left the former Soviet Union with a taste for dark meat American chicken. It's all because of a Soviet food shortage, a U.S. surplus, and a deal with President Gorbachev.
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    The CDC traced a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than a dozen people to a New York-based Kosher chicken brand.
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    Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Kosher Chicken Kills 1, CDC Says

    Aug 30, 2018
    Seventeen people also have been sickened in an outbreak that federal officials say has been linked to Empire Kosher brand chicken.
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    The Salt
    Chick-fil-A is hoping meal kits like this one — containing ingredients to make crispy Dijon chicken — will appeal to customers dining at the restaurant.
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    Chick-Fil-A Pecks Its Way Into The Meal Kit Game

    Aug 28, 2018
    People choose fast-food restaurants for a quick and easy meal. Now one national chain is betting that its customers will buy a meal-kit and make branded dinners at home.
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    The Salt
    A former Tysons CEO started a program in Rwanda teaching farmers how to raise chickens, but it faces several challenges, including the fact that the country has no infrastructure to support it.
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    Former Tyson Foods CEO Brings Chicken Farming To Rwanda — But Can It Last?

    Aug 09, 2018
    The Smith family foundation aims to build a chicken business in Africa, but the extensive project is costly and difficult, and Rwanda cannot yet support a modern poultry industry without aid money.
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    The Salt
    Chickens are carried through a poultry slaughterhouse on mechanical arms.
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    USDA Denies Poultry Industry's Request To Speed Up The Slaughter Line

    Jan 31, 2018
    The National Chicken Council says a faster line speed would increase efficiency and modernize systems. Food safety advocates are calling the move a victory for both workers and consumers.
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    The Salt
    James Dinklage, a cattle rancher from Nebraska, is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Thursday. The suit accuses the USDA of "arbitrary and capricious" behavior in rolling back two Obama-era rules designed to protect small farmers, who say they are
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    The USDA Rolled Back Protections For Small Farmers. Now The Farmers Are Suing

    Dec 14, 2017
    At issue is the Trump administration's withdrawal of two Obama-era rules designed to protect small farmers, who say they are being exploited by the meatpacking companies they supply.
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    The Salt
    Chickens are carried through a poultry slaughterhouse on mechanical arms.
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    Too Fast For Safety? Poultry Industry Wants To Speed Up The Slaughter Line

    Oct 27, 2017
    The National Chicken Council says the move is needed to keep pace with international competitors. But worker and food-safety advocates say this could cause more stress and injuries.
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    The Salt
    Farmer Tim Mueller raises corn and soybeans in Nebraska. He is hoping to get into the chicken business by signing a contract to raise birds for a subsidiary of Costco.
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    Farmers Take Out Millions In Loans To Raise Chickens For Big-Box Retailers

    Jun 22, 2017
    To slaughter 2 million birds per week, Costco is contracting poultry farmers. But this requires a major financial investment from small producers, and the payoff may not be guaranteed.
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    The Salt
    Chicken meat for sale at a market in Anhui province, China.
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    Chinese Chicken Is Headed To America, But It's Really All About The Beef

    May 12, 2017
    The U.S. has given the green light for China to start sending cooked poultry to America. It's part of a long-simmering trade deal that will open China's huge market up to U.S. beef producers.
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    The Salt
    Poultry workers at major U.S. meat-processing plants are highly susceptible to repetitive-motion injuries, denied bathroom breaks and are most often immigrants and refugees.
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    Tyson Foods Promises Better Conditions And Safety For Meat Workers

    Apr 26, 2017
    Meat-processing employs more than a half-million people. An investigation found they've got some of the most dangerous factory jobs in America and suffer from injury, low pay and lack of work breaks.
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    The Two-Way
    Tests on Subway chicken sandwiches in Canada have concluded that Subway chicken was only half meat — with the other half soy.
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    DNA Tests Find Subway Chicken Only 50 Percent Meat, Canadian News Program Reports

    Mar 01, 2017
    The CBC's investigative consumer show Marketplace ordered the DNA analysis. The sandwich chain unilaterally denies the accusation, with a spokesman calling the claims "absolutely false."
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    The Salt
    Cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa.
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    Organic Chickens Get More Room To Roam

    Jan 18, 2017
    New rules for organic farming will require farmers to give chickens more pasture. Some of the biggest organic egg producers will have to change their practices, or stop calling their eggs organic.
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    The Salt
    This chick will live. It's female.
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    Technology May Rescue Male Baby Chicks From The Grinder

    Oct 28, 2016
    The egg industry may soon eliminate a wasteful — and to some, horrifying — practice: slaughtering male chicks. New technology can identify male embryos in eggs before they enter incubation chambers.
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    The Salt
    Chicken served at McDonald's won't necessarily be raised completely without antibiotics — but it will be raised without antibiotics used for human medicine.
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    McDonald's Now Serving Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics — Mostly

    Aug 02, 2016
    The fast-food chain's suppliers are still allowed to use certain types of antibiotics that aren't used to treat people.
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    The Salt
    So sassy!
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    Solved: The Mystery Of The Bearded Chickens

    Jun 02, 2016
    Hip humans aren't the only ones growing outrageous facial hair. Some chickens do, too. And now, geneticists in China have discovered the cause.
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    The Salt
    The modern broiler, or meat chicken, grows incredibly fast. But some critics say the bird — and the flavor of its meat — may suffer as a result. Whole Foods wants all of its suppliers to shift to slower-growing chicken breeds, like this one, seen at
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    Why Whole Foods Wants A Slower-Growing Chicken

    Mar 30, 2016
    A modern broiler, or meat chicken, grows incredibly fast. The bird suffers as a result, and some critics say its flavor does too. Now Whole Foods wants its suppliers to shift to slower-growing breeds.
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    The Salt

    USDA Imposes Stricter Limit On Salmonella Bacteria In Poultry Products

    Feb 04, 2016
    The USDA says it will prevent 50,000 cases of illness each year. Skeptics say the agency needs to take a different approach to the salmonella problem because the current one has not worked very well.
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    The Salt
    Surry County residents from left, Terry Marshall, Dr. Katherine Kellam, Donna Bryant, Mary Marshall and Jesse Hardy lend support to each other during a meeting at Bryant's home in the Shoals community. Mary Marshall says the odor and pollution from nearb
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    When A Chicken Farm Moves Next Door, Odor May Not Be The Only Problem

    Jan 24, 2016
    Large-scale poultry production is ramping up in North Carolina and getting closer to residential areas. Neighbors say the smells and pollution from these farms can make it hard to breathe.
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    Goats and Soda
    Goats and Soda editor Marc Silver tried to interview the rescued hen, but she wouldn't make a peep.
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    NPR Rescued A Chicken That Tried To Cross The Road...

    Nov 09, 2015
    And that led us to interview a chicken expert who shared some exciting news about chickens in the developing world.
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    The Salt
    Tarsometatarsus chicken bones are ready to be analyzed at the zooarchaeology lab, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa.
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    The Ancient City Where People Decided To Eat Chickens

    Jul 20, 2015
    Chicken bones unearthed in Israel may mark a turning point in human cuisine: They could be the earliest evidence of people raising chickens for food, rather than cockfighting or use in ceremonies.
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    The Salt
    Tyson Foods says it has already reduced its use of human-use antibiotics by 80 percent over the past four years. Here, Tyson frozen chicken on display at Piazza's market in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2010.
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    Tyson Foods To Stop Giving Chickens Antibiotics Used By Humans

    Apr 28, 2015
    Antibiotic use is falling out of fashion in the poultry industry. Tyson Foods, the biggest poultry producer in the U.S., says it will stop feeding its birds human-use antibiotics in two years.
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    The Salt
    Chickens stand in their cages at a farm near Stuart, Iowa, in 2009. This week, bird flu hit a large poultry facility in Iowa. It's not clear how the virus is evading the industry's biosecurity efforts.
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    5 Million Chickens To Be Killed As Bird Flu Outbreak Puzzles Industry

    Apr 21, 2015
    A flu strain deadly to chickens and turkeys is striking farms in the West and Midwest. This week, it hit an Iowa facility with millions of egg-laying hens. No one knows how it's entering houses.
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    The Salt
    The annual <em>Courir de Mardi Gras</em> in Mamou, La., in February 2008. In the Cajun country tradition, revelers go house to house, collecting ingredients for gumbo from local families. Here, the host tosses a live chicken from a rooftop for the partic
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    Forget Beads: Cajun Mardi Gras Means A Grand, Drunken Chicken Chase

    Feb 11, 2015
    Courir de Mardi Gras is an old tradition in rural Louisiana. From early morning on, costumed revelers go house to house, drinking, singing and collecting ingredients for a big ole pot of gumbo.
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