Latest National Chicken Council Stories

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Chicken Council today released the following statement in response to a New York Times opinion piece, "Arsenic in our chicken," and refuted the findings of recent studies that claim to have found chemical and antimicrobial residues in chicken feather meal: "As the study's authors point out, this study looked only at feathers, not meat. If consumers were to take away one message from the findings, it should be from...

National Chicken Council Projects 25 Billion Wings for all of 2012 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Americans plan their menus for Super Bowl Sunday, the second biggest eating day of the year after Thanksgiving, few items will be more prominent on viewers' plates than America's favorite appetizer - chicken wings. Super Bowl weekend is unquestionably the biggest time of the year for wings. More than 1.25 billion wing portions will be consumed during Super...

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Chicken Council and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association released a statement today in response to the Pew Charitable Trust's comments on environmental conditions in the Chesapeake bay region: America's broiler chicken companies and the 30,000 farm families that grow broiler chickens are committed to the responsible production of food that is safe, affordable and abundant for consumers in the United States and around the...

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week's report on corn and other grains by the U.S. Department of Agriculture marks an important turning point in the evolution of agriculture, according to the National Chicken Council: for the first time, the government is predicting that more corn will be used in this crop year for motor fuel than used for animal feed to help produce food for people. "Raising poultry and livestock as food for people is taking second place to...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The next president of the National Chicken Council will be Mike Brown, currently senior vice president for legislative affairs of the American Meat Institute, NCC Chairman Bernard Leonard announced today. Brown will join NCC in March to succeed George Watts, who is retiring after 38 years as president. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110210/DC46335) "The search committee considered many qualified candidates before recommending...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A massive regulation proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the production and marketing of poultry and livestock is unconstitutional, unsupported by any meaningful economic analysis, and is in defiance of court rulings and Congressional mandates, the poultry industry said in comments filed with the agency today. The proposed regulation should be withdrawn and rewritten, the industry said. The industry's comments and a...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Proposed new regulations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will cost the broiler chicken industry more than $1 billion over five years in reduced efficiency, higher costs for feed and housing, and increased administrative expenses, according to a study released today by the National Chicken Council. And that doesn't even count the potential costs of litigation, lost export sales, and increased consumer prices, according to the study...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Increasing the amount of ethanol in motor fuel, as authorized today by the Environmental Protection Agency, will eventually hit food shoppers in their pocketbooks, the National Chicken Council said today. "Rising grain prices driven by the voracious demand for feedstock from the heavily subsidized ethanol industry caused an increase of six percent in the retail price of fresh whole broiler chickens from 2008 to 2010," said George Watts,...

WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Competition is alive and well in the broiler chicken industry and benefits chicken farmers, poultry companies, and consumers, according to a study of the industry released here today. "On the national scale, it is the overall conclusion of this study that the chicken industry is a competitive and thriving sector," wrote Dr. Thomas Elam, an agricultural economist and president of FarmEcon LLC. "Intense competition among chicken companies leads...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American poultry industry has urged U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk to "fully and resolutely pursue" a World Trade Organization (WTO) action against European Union rules that effectively block American poultry from the European market. "The injustice against U.S. poultry has continued for far too long, and it is time to begin to correct that injustice," the presidents of the National Chicken Council (NCC), National Turkey...