If you’re not a vegan, vegetarian, or pescatarian in the United States, chances are your diet involves at least a bit of chicken. Eating healthy as an omnivore has almost become synonymous with eating massive amounts of chicken breasts. On a less healthy note, pretty much every restaurant you go to will, at the very least, offer diners a chicken sandwich of some kind. Every year in the US we consume 26 billion pounds of the bird and spend almost $30 billion on broiler birds. According to @MrSollozo, the average American eats 65 pounds of chicken. These staggering statistics are alarming on their own, but they actually come from a thread that @MrSollozo composed about how much the chickens we gorge ourselves have changed in the last year. The transformation is pretty startling.