Gary Null: The Poultry Explosion

The Poultry Explosion. Chicken and turkey have become highly over-rated foods in recent years as handy replacements for fatty red meat. The exposure of the many health risks of eating red meat led us to seek alternatives. Poultry has since enjoyed a popularity wildly surpassing its reserved 1950s image as “Sunday chicken dinner,” or as annual Thanksgiving turkey dinner. (Note that cancer rates have soared since those days, and many believe our contaminated poultry supply may be partly responsible.) Americans now eat turkey or chicken every day, even several times a day.