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08-19-2011, 10:33 AM
Cheap chicken is not really cheap! Your tax dollars pay for all the subsidies used to keep factory farmed chicken cheap. And even so, the massive poultry business needed to be bailed out, even while politicians talk about reducing the deficit. As demand for chicken meat remains far below the number of birds actually being raised and killed, rather than allowing the market to adjust to basic supply and demand principles, the federal government announced it will buy $40 million of unwanted chicken products that will be dumped on our nation’s school kids and others in federal food programs. Read More: http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/poultry-bail-out-your-tax-dollars-are-buying-factory-raised-cheap-chicken-nobody-else-wants/