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343: Poultry Slam 2007

Act Four: The Meaning Of A Bird

Writer David Rakoff explains how his life was changed—in a single evening—in a room of 5000 chickens.

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When is a chicken your friend? When is he your dinner? TAL's former webmeister Elizabeth Meister talks with Kamiko Overs, an 11-year-old girl at the annual poultry exhibition run by the American Poultry Association in Columbus, Ohio.