Word: broiler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waste disposal, of course, is not confined to cattle. Dogs do their part in dirtying cities (TIME, July 20), and pigs and chickens add to the problem in the country. Pigs are still bred on some 1,000,000 farms, and more than 80 million are sold each year. Broiler production soared from 630 million birds in 1950 to about 2.6 billion in 1967. Confined like cattle, pigs and chickens produce mountains of wastes...