Researchers for the British Nutrition Foundation - part-funded by the poultry industry - concluded that the type of cholesterol found in eggs has minimal effect on raising heart disease risks.
Moreover, it could also help with another environmental problem: reducing the mountains of chicken feathers that the poultry industry has to dispose of every year.
The poultry industry began cutting production last year: Pilgrim’s Pride, America’s largest chicken producer, filed for bankruptcy in December.
Jiang Gaoming and Tang Aimin investigate the shady underbelly of China's poultry industry.
Repeated outbreaks have occurred in Asia and parts of Europe since 1997, affecting the poultry industry and also claiming a number of human lives.
In 1990 the state Department of Pollution Control and Ecology found that more than 90 percent of the streams in northwest Arkansas, where the poultry industry was concentrated, were polluted.
These developments have led the poultry industry and the associated feed industry to scale up rapidly, to concentrate themselves close to input sources or final markets, and to integrate vertically.
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