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U.S. consumers should learn from Chinese about chicken choices

Chinese fans of the Colonel's chicken have turned their backs on the white suited icon in the wake of a poultry production inspection there. Seems authorities behind the Great Wall found chicken produced at a plant supplying KFCs there was giving chickens growth hormones that brought them from birth to broiler weight in 45 days.

Chinese KFC customers have voiced their opposition to juiced up poultry by retreating from KFC stores, and the financial impact on Yum! Brands overall will be flat earnings next year. (If you've got YUM stock, it's losing value as you read this.)

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the vast majority of chicken consumers eat the same darn thing: birds that go from hatching to having their heads hacked off in 49 days. We have to grow them that quickly in a country where 500 million birds were harvested to supply an estimated 1 billion wings consumed on Super Bowl Sunday alone!

A large group of Chinese consumers told the Colonel to choke on his chicken until the supply was free of growth hormones. What's keeping us from doing the same thing here?

Tawlk amongst yourselves by responding here.

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U.S. consumers should learn from Chinese about chicken choices

Chinese fans of the Colonel's chicken have turned their backs on the white suited icon in the wake of a poultry production inspection there. Seems authorities behind the Great Wall found chicken produced at a plant supplying KFCs there was giving chickens growth hormones that brought them from birth to broiler weight in 45 days.

Chinese KFC customers have voiced their opposition to juiced up poultry by retreating from KFC stores, and the financial impact on Yum! Brands overall will be flat earnings next year. (If you've got YUM stock, it's losing value as you read this.)

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the vast majority of chicken consumers eat the same darn thing: birds that go from hatching to having their heads hacked off in 49 days. We have to grow them that quickly in a country where 500 million birds were harvested to supply an estimated 1 billion wings consumed on Super Bowl Sunday alone!

A large group of Chinese consumers told the Colonel to choke on his chicken until the supply was free of growth hormones. What's keeping us from doing the same thing here?

Tawlk amongst yourselves by responding here.

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