03-01-2022, 06:04 PM
(03-01-2022, 04:45 PM)basballguy Wrote: I always wondered why chicken was so cheap (before it's current inflation). Being able to buy a WHOLE chicken for 5 bucks just always seemed like an incredible steal. When i was strapped for cash back in the day, baking a whole chicken (with some vegi sides) was one of my go to meals to feed the family. Chicken just always seemed underpriced for the value (to me).
Yesterday I bought a whole chicken for 10 bucks.....
Volume. So where I live, poultry reigns supreme. Specifically turkey, but chickens as well. The way poultry is raised is cheap as hell. They are in crowded barns where thousands of them are crammed in there. You have to wear a respirator to walk in some of them because you'll suffocate from the ammonia. They have a very quick turnaround from pullet to slaughter, no more than 20 weeks. The processing, then, is amazingly efficient. It wasn't always like this, though. The way chicken is done now is relatively new. It's only been roughly 30 years since chicken took the top spot for meat.
This is what I have learned living in what was once the turkey capital of the world. Not joking. There is a turkey statue at the border of the county in each cardinal direction.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
