Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the iPhone, or the automobile, but rather something humbler: the chicken bone. The reason? We eat so many chickens. So, so many. In 2021 alone, people around the world consumed nearly 74 billion of them, up from 8 billion in 1965. Just this Sunday, Americans will likely eat a record-breaking 1.45 billion chicken wings as they watch the 49ers take on the Chiefs at Super Bowl LVIII. And that makes it all the more astonishing that, according to chicken industry lore, the system ... (full story)