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Chicken Farming Is the 21st Century’s Sharecropping

Vertically integrated poultry companies that own most of the supply chain trap small farmers into debt — until they lose everything.


Pedro Armando Aparicio, Leighton Akio Woodhouse, David Zlutnick
June 8 2021, 9:30 a.m.
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