Part 3: The Chicken of Tomorrow and World War II
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Here the history of the broiler chicken starting now. As commercial broiler chickens grew in popularity, Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover used the slogan “a chicken in every pot” in his 1928 campaign. “This slogan is inspired by the French language.” “The slogan was inspired by French King Henry IV’s” “A chicken in every peasant’s pot every Sunday.” “” In 1598, King Henry declared that his kingdom would be so prosperous that farmers could afford to eat chicken every Sunday. This royal tradition is still celebrated by the people of France as’ Sunday Chicken ‘.
King Henry’s promise was not successful, but American Republican President Hoover’s promise was fulfilled by the broiler. As the popularity of commercial broilers increased, poultry science departments began to open at various American universities.
American women spend most of their time raising chickens. America’s Wall Street financiers started making high profits with “low-grade” chickens!
The Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted until 1939. In the southern states of the United States, husbands engage in the chicken business on the advice of their wives. Because the main occupation of the farmers of the southern states was the cultivation of ‘King Cotton’ or cotton which was being stopped due to the removal of synthetic fabrics. As a result, the chicken business became the only option for poor people.
“A 1933 issue of the American magazine” “Progressive Farmer” “wrote,” “The unimportant farm work of throwing away a few corns and collecting a few eggs is now becoming a scientific business and the farm’s main source of income.” “” Even in the midst of the global Great Depression, tens of thousands of trains filled with chickens went to the industrialized cities every day. On the eve of World War II in 1939, chicken became ready to enter the center of the American diet.
When World War II began in 1939, the American federal government began exporting beef and pork to the war front and decided to allocate the chicken to the American public. The government fixed a high price for chicken so that the people became interested in producing chicken commercially and the broiler industry developed. Due to the export of cow and pig meat in the war zone, chicken meat came into the black market due to the depletion of their stock. As a result, the industry is growing rapidly.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Food Administration to address the food shortages of American soldiers. This Food Administration seized all the broilers in Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland, known as the centers of American poultry production, and introduced many delicious broiler recipes into the diet of soldiers on the battlefield. By the end of World War II, Americans were eating three times more chicken than before the war. Millions of hatcheries and broiler farms have sprung up across the country.
In the meantime, another project became popular like the Manhattan Project of World War II, which is known as’ The Chicken of Tomorrow ‘or’ The Chicken of Tomorrow ‘. The Chicken of Tomorrow Project is the brain child of a poultry scientist in Iowa, USA.
As a result of the Manhattan Project, the world saw the horrors of the atomic bomb for the first time. In the world-famous Manhattan Project, university scientists, industrial engineers, and the government all worked together to unravel the mystery of the atom, as well as in the Chicken of Tomorrow Project, American poultry researchers, farmers, agricultural extension agents, and many others participated.
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Next part : The Broiler and the Mysterious Growth Factor
Whether the Chicken of Tomorrow project will produce another broiler bomb will be discussed in later episodes, but before that, we should know what kind of growth promoter Thomas Jukes made history by feeding broiler chickens at the Lederle Laboratory in 1948.
A.F.M.Fayjul Islam
BCS (Livestock)
B.SC. In Animal Husbandry, BAU
MS. In Animal Breeding and Genetics, BAU
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