摘要:Over the past 30 years, large
plants producing a variety
of ready-to-cook poultry
products have come to dominate the
U.S. poultry slaughter industry. In
1967, less than one-third of our
poultry was produced in large
plants, but today more than fourfifths
comes from plants employing
more than 400 workers. Moreover,
production has changed from
mainly whole birds for domestic
consumption to cut-up and deboned
poultry packed in bulk containers
for both the domestic and export
markets and chicken and turkey
parts packed in Styrofoam trays for
domestic consumption.