Ice How Globalization Kills Chicken Summary

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The article Migration, on ice how globalization kills chicken for their parts by Malia Wollan I would characterize this article as an argument of evaluation, fact and proposal. The author Malia Wollan uses facts throughout the article when she states that “a country’s place on the meat color spectrum is determined in large part by economic preferences...” (Wollan, 2008) for example, in Ghana their meat spectrum is dark meat and they are considered a leg quarter country. Many Americans are beginning to fear eating chicken just because of how it is imported the hormones they put into chicken, and the processing of it. According to the article Wollan says “In normal weather conditions the trip takes between 12 and 15 days” (Wollan, 2008) this

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