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145: Poultry Slam 1999
Act Two

Still Life With Chicken

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What happens when a chicken crosses the thin yellow line that divides the animals we eat from the animals we keep as pets. Jonathan Gold, food writer for Gourmet magazine, tells how he accidentally came to adopt a chicken, and what happened to his opinion of chickens afterwards. (14 minutes)

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