WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
NATIONAL CHICKEN MONTH
Profile America — Friday, September 19th. One of our favorite foods is being celebrated — it's National Chicken Month, nicely complementing September's Mushroom and Rice Month. The versatility of chicken — served in numerous ways ranging from Southern fried style to sandwiches to salads — drives a demand that has reached over 8.6 billion birds a year in the U.S. alone. This is almost a 50 percent increase from the broiler production in 1990. Americans eat nearly 39 pounds of chicken per capita annually, over 25 percent of the consumption of all meat, poultry and fish. Georgia is the top producer — followed by Arkansas and Alabama. The result is certainly not chicken feed but a $52 billion a year industry. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
www.nationalchickenmonth.com
http://www.ers.usda.gov/datafiles/Commodity_Consumption_by_Population_Characteristics/Food_Intakes_Converted_to_Retail_Commodities_Database/ficrcd_meat.xls annualized & converted to pounds
http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/top-broiler-producing-states/
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2011_31VS101&prodType=table NAICS 311615
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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