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By Jerry Adler and Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine

The Chicken Story

By John Steele Gordon, Americain Heritage

A CENTURY AGO you’d eat steak and lobster when you couldn’t afford chicken. Today it can cost less than the potatoes you serve with. What happened in the years between was an extraordinary marriage of technology and the market.