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The United States is the largest producer of poultry meat in the world. This amounts to 17% of the global poultry production. China and Brazil are also big producers, but America’s consumption of poultry and poultry products is huge.
On average Americans consume over 95 pounds of chicken and 280 eggs per person each year. This is more chicken consumed than anywhere else in the world.
The US poultry industry boasts nearly 520 million chickens and nearly 225 million turkeys in its inventory at any one time. But each year it produces a staggering 8 and a half billion broilers, almost 100 billion eggs, and 240 million turkeys.
These numbers are huge and poultry business in the US is big business. But how does it work? Who are the farmers and what are the profits like?
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