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Introducing: Beak Capitalism, presented by Odd Lots

2024-11-13 · 16:23 UTC ·Bloomberg ·1 min read

Brief

Beak Capitalism, a three-part Odd Lots series releasing Nov. 15, 2024, investigates the U.S. chicken industry’s vast, complex supply chain and its cultural-economic impacts. Hosts highlight the chicken sandwich wars and the idea of the economy being “chickenized,” promising reporting that connects logistics, market structure, and consumer trends across the poultry sector.

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00:00:01

Speaker 1: Wings, nuggets, eggs, no matter the form, Americans love their chicken, and the last few years have been wild ones for the industry. And we can't forget the chicken sandwich wars.

00:00:12

Speaker 2: I ate so many chicken sandwiches during that war. I was the real casualty.

00:00:16

Speaker 3: The chicken industry is one of the largest and most complex supply chains that America has. These birds are big business and we wanted to get to the bottom of it. Everything is being chickenized.

00:00:26

00:00:42

Speaker 3: Get it So, there's going to be chicken puns.

00:00:44

Speaker 4: There are definitely going to be chicken puns. We're going to be asking why the chicken industry has evolved the way that it has and what does it say about the American economy that so many consumers are flocking to poultry. There's another one for you.

00:00:58

Speaker 3: Listen to Beat capital from Odline starting Friday, November fifteenth, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen, and you can binge all of the episodes early with your Bloomberg dot Com subscription