Chicken, whether Kentucky fried or simply buttered, is a large part of the human diet. The average American, for instance, eats around 45 kilograms (100 pounds) of chicken every year, according to the National Chicken Council . If you were so inclined, you could fashion that amount of chicken into a sculpture larger than a German Shepherd dog. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

At some point, you may have wondered why we don't farm and eat other birds on this scale. Are we just picking on the chickens? In a way, yes. But there are several good reasons why eating chicken really took off, and one of them is that chickens don't take off.

Let's start with why we eat so many hens and roosters. The history of munching on chic

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