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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

10,000 Birds

When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. Their population apparently received a big boost in the 1970s when c**k-fighting was declared illegal and many fighting c s were released. Americans love chicken. In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.