Russian chicken

Cian O'Connor cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 12 11:45:14 PST 2002


--- pms <laflame at aaahawk.com> wrote: > I understand that it's crap,(at least I do now) I
> just don't understand how
> it's cheaper. Even our underpaid chicken plant
> workers would make a lot more
> that Iranians, I would think. Transport, especially
> during oil price spikes
> must cost a lot. I'm just wondering if the
> institutional/antibiotic farming
> in US has extremely lower cost basis or if some
> other factors involved in
> economics, like the US chicken is really from
> Indonesia or something.

Is it subsidised? I know US wheat production is, but what about livestock?

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