WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
NATIONAL CHICKEN MONTH
Profile America — Saturday, September 19th. One of our favorite foods is being celebrated — it's National Chicken Month, nicely complementing September's Mushroom Month and Rice Month. The versatility of chicken — served in numerous ways ranging from Southern fried style to sandwiches to salads — drives a demand that has reached over 40 million pounds a year in the U.S. alone. This is more than double the broiler production in 1990. Americans eat about 90 pounds of chicken per capita annually, almost 43 percent of the combined consumption of red meat, pork and poultry. Georgia is the top producer — followed by Arkansas and Alabama. The result is certainly not chicken feed but a $61 billion a year industry. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Chicken: www.nationalchickenmonth.com
Rice: http://usarice.com/all-about-rice/national-rice-month
Mushrooms: http://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-mushroom-month-september/
Production of chicken meat: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/u-s-broiler-production/
Consumption: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/per-capita-consumption-of-poultry-and-livestock-1965-to-estimated-2012-in-pounds/
Top producing states: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/top-broiler-producing-states/
Poultry production/ NAICS 311615: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2013_31VS101&prodType=table
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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