Nine Billion Chickens plus Hogs & Cows!
Here’s an amazing factoid I picked up from Gourmet magazine recently. Each year n the US, we consume 30 million cows, 100 million pigs, and (can you believe it!) NINE BILLION chickens! Let’s do the math: for each person in the country, man, woman, child, and baby, that’s 1/10th of a cow, 1/3 of a pig, and 30 chickens a year. I did a quick cross check on the chicken number. For my family of six, to be average we would consume 180 chickens a year, or about 3.5 chickens per week. That’s pretty close to actuals, I think. But NINE BILLION?! Who’d of thunk it? -chris