Typical of many agricultural sectors in the . today, the poultry industry is characterized by two types of systems that result in poultry for consumption: large-scale industrial, conventional production and small-scale, alternative production. Large-scale, conventional, industrial poultry production. At the high-volume end of the continuum is the conventional, industrial poultry industry. Today, the conventional, vertically- integrated poultry industry controls and manages the production and processing of 96% of the chickens raised for meat in the . (Pretanik 2007). There are 10 companies that produce more than ¾ of the chicken produced for.
