How The Chicken Helped Spread Civilization

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How The Chicken Helped Spread Civilization

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published February 4, 2015 at 1:00 PM EST

02/03/15 - On the next , we鈥檒l get the lowdown on the 鈥渙rdinary鈥� chicken.

Wrong term. From prehistoric times, the chicken has helped spread civilization. Pasteur used the bird to create the modern vaccine. The rooster is the emblem of France . . . and Americans eat 80-pounds of it per capita. We鈥檒l speak with , author of Wednesday at 1pm.

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Richard Ives came to SA国际传谋 in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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