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Conference Program
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FRIDAY, MAY 17
SATURDAY, MAY 18
- 8:30–10:00, Panel A: ?The Historical Creation of the Chicken?
- 8:30–10:00, Panel B: ?Small-Scale Chicken Production in the United States: Past, Present, and Future?
- 10:15–11:45, Panel C: ?The Chicken in Folklore and Symbolism?
- 10:15–11:45, Panel D: ?The Engineering of a Global Work Force?
- 1:00–2:30, Panel E: ?When Chickens Come to Town: The Impact on Communities?
- 1:00–2:30, Panel F: ?Chicken Consumption: History, Culture, Choice, and Taste?
- 2:45–4:15, Panel G: ?Economics and Politics in the Making of Big Chicken?
- 2:45–4:15, Panel H: ?Alternatives to the Industrial Chicken: Sustainable Poultry Production?
- 4:30–6:00, Plenary Session: ?Engineering a Verticalized Industry: Contracting Growers’ Roles, Rights, Communities, and Incomes?
- 8:00–10:30, Festival of Films and Slides (continued)
SUNDAY, MAY 19
- 8:30–9:45, Plenary Session: ?Chickens and Nutrition: White Meat and Obesity?
- 9:45–11:15, Panel I: ?Ecological and Human Health Consequences of Industrialized Chicken?
- 9:45–11:15, Panel J: ?Animal Welfare Issues Surrounding Poultry?
- 11:30–1:00, Panel K: ?Environmental Consequences of Industrialized Poultry Operations?
- 11:30–1:00, Panel L: ?Local and Global: Poultry Production Systems around the World?
Credits
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FRIDAY, MAY 17
 12:00–12:30, Registration and Light Lunch
Bowers Auditorium
12:30–1:00, Opening Remarks
Bowers Auditorium
- James Scott, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University
- Mary Summers, University of Pennsylvania
- Deborah Davis, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
1:00–2:15, Plenary Session
Bowers Auditorium
“The Chicken and Globalization”
- Michael Pollan, independent author and journalist
- Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
2:15–4:15, Plenary Session
Bowers Auditorium
“Perspectives from the Poultry Industry”
- Richard Lobb, National Chicken Council
- Paul Aho, Poultry Perspectives
- Michael Darre, University of Connecticut
- Wes Jamison, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
4:15–4:30, Coffee Break
Sage Lounge
4:30–6:00, Plenary Session
Bowers Auditorium
“Farmers, Workers, and Organizers Speak Out”
- Reverend Jim Lewis, founder, Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance
- Patrick Harmon, catcher, Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance
- Maria Martinez, organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers
- Carole Morison, community organizer, Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance
- Rosa Sutton, President, Helping Hands, Siler City, NC
6:00–7:30, Reception and Informal Buffet Dinner (for conference participants only)
Sage Lounge
7:30–10:00, Festival of Films and Slides
Bowers Auditorium
- Stephen Green-Armytage, photographer and author, Extraordinary Chickens
- A slide show of exotic chickens (7:30)
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- Linda Lord, Alicia Rouverol, and Cedric Chatterley
- “I Was Content and Not Content": The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry, slides and readings (8:30)
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- Chris Bedford, Maryland Sierra Club
- Uncertain Future, a film on Maryland poultry farmers (9:30)
SATURDAY, MAY 18
8:30–10:00, Panel A
Bowers Auditorium
“The Historical Creation of the Chicken”
Discussant: James Scott, Yale University
- Donald Bixby, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
- “Genetic Diversity Provides a Breed for Every Need”
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- Roger Horowitz, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
- “Making the Chicken of Tomorrow, 1945–1990”
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- Barry Koffler, Feathersite.com
- “The Chicken in America: The Past ... the Internet, the Future?"
8:30–10:00, Panel B
Sage 24
“Small-Scale Chicken Production in the United States: Past, Present, and Future”
Discussant: Glenda Gilmore, Yale University
- Lu Ann Jones, East Carolina University
- “The Chicken Business: Southern Women and Poultry Production, 1900–1940”
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- Jane Adams, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- “Modernity and U.S. Farmwomen’s Poultry Operations, or Farm Women Nourish the Industrializing Cities 1880–1940”
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- Deborah Fink, independent anthropologist, IA
- “Alternative Chickens and Eggs: Constructing Quality, Markets, and History”
10:00–10:15, Coffee Break
Sage Lounge
10:15–11:45, Panel C
Bowers Auditorium
“The Chicken in Folklore and Symbolism”
Discussant: Linda-Anne Rebhun, Yale University
- Boria Sax, Mercy College
- “The Fighting Cock and the Brooding Hen: Chickens as Symbols of Gender in Folklore and Literature”
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- Kamari Maxine Clarke, Yale University
- “Animal Sacrifice as Human Sacrifice? Rethinking the Modernity of Yoruba Ritual Meaning”
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- Michael Dove, Yale University
- “Chickens as Social Mediators and Currency in Borneo”
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- Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
- “Thinking Like a Chicken”
10:15–11:45, Panel D
Sage 24
“The Engineering of a Global Work Force”
Discussant: Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William and Mary
- Stephen Striffler, University of Arkansas
- “‘We're All Mexican Here’: Inside (and Outside) a Tyson Plant”
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- David Griffith, East Carolina University
- “Constructing a Chicken Line: Network Recruitment and Labor Control in the Southern Poultry Industry”
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- Leon Fink, University of Illinois-Chicago
- “Corn People on a Poultry Line: Notes from an Immigrant Worker’s Struggle”
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- Gunther Peck, University of Texas
- “The Nature of Labor: Chicken-Catchers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1995–Present”
12:00–1:00, Lunch Break
Sage Lounge
1:00–2:30, Panel E
Bowers Auditorium
“When Chickens Come to Town:
The Impact on Communities”
Discussant: Robert Evenson, Yale University
- William Weida, The Colorado College and the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) Factory Farm Project
- “The Effects of CAFO Location Decisions on the Regional Economies”
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- Christopher Bedford, Maryland Sierra Club and Humane Society of the United States
- “Chickens in the Food Ecosystem”
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- Donald Stull, University of Kansas
- “Tour de Stench: Poultry Growers, Environmentalists, and the Future of Farming in Kentucky”
1:00–2:30, Panel F
Sage 24
“Chicken Consumption:
History, Culture, Choice, and Taste”
Discussant: James Watson, Harvard University
- Paul Freedman, Yale University
- “Images of the Medieval Pheasant: The Chicken and Other Fowl in Medieval Cuisine and Ceremony”
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- Fuji Lozada, Davidson College
- “KFC, Chicken Flu, Free-Range Chickens, and Other Poultry Politics in Post-socialist China”
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- Elizabeth Wheeler, Hartford Food Systems
- “Chicken Eaters and Choice in Hartford”
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- Yen Hsieh, Procter and Gamble
- “Chicken Flavor — the Quintessential Ingredient of Good Taste!”
2:30–2:45, Coffee Break
Sage Lounge
2:45–4:15, Panel G
Bowers Auditorium
“Economics and Politics in the Making of Big Chicken”
Discussant: Timothy Pachirat, Yale University
- Michael Stumo, Organization for Competitive Markets
- “Market Power and Fairness Issues”
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- Chris Foster, Food Processing and Manufacturing Division, United Food and Commercial Workers
- “Expanding Products — Increasing Production”
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- Steven Etka, Campaign for Contract Agriculture Reform
- “Silence is Not Golden: The Grower-Integrator Relationship in the Poultry Sector”
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- Chuck Shipley, attorney, Tulsa
- “Big Chicken's Control of Local Politics Creates Tyranny in the Heartland”
2:45–4:15, Panel H
Sage 24
“Alternatives to the Industrial Chicken:
Sustainable Poultry Production”
Discussant: Suzanne Millman,
Humane Society of the United States
- Randall Westgren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- “The French Label Rouge Poultry System: Sustainability, Safety, and Quality from Hatchery to Table”
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- Pamela Marshall, Seldom Seen Farm, Armenia, NY
- “Finding Your Niche — Heritage Breeds in Small-Scale Farming”
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- Michael Shuman, Bay Friendly Chicken
- “Bay Friendly Chicken: Reinventing Factory-Scale Poultry Production”
4:15–4:30, Coffee Break
Sage Lounge
4:30–6:00, Plenary Session
Bowers Auditorium
“Engineering a Verticalized Industry: Contracting Growers’ Roles, Rights, Communities, and Incomes”
Discussant: Kendall Thu, Northern Illinois University
- William Heffernan, University of Missouri
- “Industry Concentration and the Changing Environment for Contract Farming: A 30-Year Study of Poultry Growers in Union Parish, Louisiana”
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- Mary Clouse, Contract Agriculture Reform Project, RAFI-US
- “Poultry Grower Attempts to Organize”
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- Eric Tabor, Iowa Attorney General’s Office
- “The Experience of Contract Poultry Growers: Clear Evidence of the Need for Producer Protection Legislation”
6:00–8:00, Dinner (for conference participants only)
Kline Biology Tower
- Linnea Johnson, poultry farmer and independent poet
- Poetry reading during dinner
- Other dramatic readings performed by Yale students
8:00–10:30, Festival of Films and Slides (continued)
Davis Auditorium
- Stephanie Black, filmmaker
- Life and Debt, film shown at 8:00 followed by question and answer session
SUNDAY, MAY 19
8:30–9:45, Plenary Session
Bowers Auditorium
“Chickens and Nutrition: White Meat and Obesity”
Discussant: Susan Levine, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Marion Nestle, New York University
- “A Nutritionist's View of Chicken: From Farm to Table”
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- Kelly Brownell, Yale University
- “Chicken as Part of the World's Fattening Environment”
9:45–11:15, Panel I
Bowers Auditorium
“Ecological and Human Health Consequences of Industrialized Chicken”
Discussant: Mark Cullen, MD, Yale University
- Polly Walker, MD, Center for a Livable Future, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- “Interconnections: Diet, Health, Environment, and Food Production”
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- Ellen Silbergeld, MD, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- “Environmental Pathways of Antibiotic Resistance from Food Animal Production”
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- David Moskowitz, worker’s compensation attorney
- “Representing the Injured Poultry Worker: America's Disposable Employee”
9:45–11:15, Panel J
Sage 24
“Animal Welfare Issues Surrounding Poultry”
Discussant: Susan Sperling, University of California, San Francisco
- Richard Wood, Food Animals Concern Trust
- “Animal Welfare and Food Safety — The Chicken or the Egg?”
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- Michael Appleby, Humane Society of the United States
- “The European Union Ban on Battery Cages: History and Prospects”
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- Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society of the United States
- “Cockfighting in the United States: A Political and Cultural Examination”
11:15–11:30, Coffee Break
Sage Lounge
11:30–1:00, Panel K
Bowers Auditorium
“Environmental Consequences of Industrialized Poultry Operations”
Discussant: Sylvia Tesh, Yale University
- JoAnn Burkholder, Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, North Carolina State University
- “Environmental Impacts of Concentrated Poultry Feed Operations”
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- Amy Chapin, The Johns Hopkins University
- “Managing Chicken Waste: Policies and Ideas at the State and National Levels”
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- Heather Williams, Pomona College
- “Tulsa Blues: Phosphorus, Fish Kills, and Foul Drinking Water”
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- Nicolette Hahn, attorney and sustainable agriculture consultant
- “Concentrated Animal Operations — Illegally Polluting Our Waters and Air”
11:30–1:00, Panel L
Sage 24
“Local and Globa Poultry Production Systems around the World”
Discussant: Eric Worby, Yale University
- Noel Honeyborne, Fowls for Africa, South Africa
- “Fowls for Africa — Providing Poultry Production Resources for Small-Scale Systems”
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- Marla Naidoo, University of Zululand, South Africa
- “Small-Scale Production and Indigenous Knowledge on Chickens in Zulu Communities”
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- David Burch, Griffith University, Australia
- “Integrating Chicken Production and Consumption: Conglomerate Companies and Fast Food Chains in Southeast Asia”
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- Lamin Nyangado, Action Aid Gambia
- “A Case Study of Poultry ‘Dumping’: The Effects of European Union Poultry Exports on the Poultry Industry in The Gambia”
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