A Chicken in Every Pot

A promise was made by president Hoover in the 1920's that there would be "a chicken in every pot". Eighty years later Americans are eating 67 pounds of poultry per year, 50 pounds being chicken. Having poultry products in pans every day can have a lot a health issues, it would be better to eat more fat-rich red meats. There is an estimated 76 to 80 million cases of foodbourn deceases every year and some five thousand of them end up dieing. Then the costs come in to play, it cost the U.S. poultry products 4.5 to 7.5 million dollars every year and chicken contributes a good majority to this problem. I am amazed that these foods we eat every day are this bad for us and nobody really cares or knows about. Organic food is not as common in most house holds as other foods, such as poultry products and a switch in these foods would help bring this numbers of foodbourn illnesses down or even get rid of them. The food we eat instead of organic food is from farm animals that are dosed daily with antibiotics, chicken receive four different ones. Seventy present of all American antibiotics are used on farm animals and there are twenty five million pounds of antibiotics are given to these animals. Just because organic food is more expensive people do not want to buy it, this is real smart, putting your own life at risk.