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There are more chickens alive today then dogs, cats,pigs, cows and rats combined.

This ubiquitous bird lives on every continent except the Antarctica where international law bans them in order to protect the penguins from disease.

Chickens produce 100 million tons of meat and more than a trillion eggs a year feeding our growing population.

Man mainly cultivated /domesticated chickens for cock fighting and religious ceremonies

Southern women and minorities spearheaded the chicken industry.. Mollie Tugman and H.P.McPherson started raise huge flocks of chicken around 1909 in North Carolina spreading the word that profit margins were fatter than butter milk and vegetables. By the 1940's these women had caught the attention of the would be world producers

WJS 12/18/19/14