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...broiler group serves as the trade association for the poultry industry as a whole, but Tyson dominates the council since dues are paid according to company size. To get action on the Puerto Rican problem, a Tyson executive called George Watts, president of the Broiler Council, who in turn called Espy's chief of staff and the acting Assistant Agriculture Secretary. Since USDA rules don't require the importer's name on consumer-size packages, Watts urged the department to assert the primacy of federal law. Just nine days after Clinton's Inauguration, when the Administration had barely appointed enough...
...Tyson wasn't satisfied with that. Having pressured Puerto Rico to ditch the labeling requirement, the chicken giant struck for more. The Broiler Council began an attempt to craft new regulations even more favorable to the mainland producers. At a Feb. 18 meeting in San Juan attended by Puerto Rican officials and poultry-industry representatives, Tyson momentarily dropped the pretense that the industry group was doing the lobbying. While the Broiler Council had requested the session, records reviewed by TIME show clearly that it was a Tyson vice president, Mike Morrison, who described in detail the many rules Tyson wanted...
With whom, though? The talks took a strange turn, in which the chicken industry became the mouthpiece of the U.S. government. While USDA officials had the responsibility to bargain with Puerto Rico, as the earlier court order contemplated, the Broiler Council took over instead. USDA staffers in San Juan say their bosses in Washington told them to back off. "Face it," says a career USDA official who has dealt with the poultry industry for two decades. "On something like this we're not going to accept anything the Broiler Council doesn't want and they're not going to accept...
...Secretary under broiler for taking gifts from poultry company...
...because Americans have been forsaking pork and beef over the years and consuming far more chicken: 66 lbs. per capita last year, up from 28 lbs. in 1960. Health is not the only reason -- consumers also know a bargain. At an average 88 cents per lb. for a whole broiler, chicken costs 50% less than it did three decades ago, after adjustment for inflation. One reason for the low prices is that fowl production is concentrated in poor rural areas of the South...