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Experts: Poultry Industry's Structure Is Antidote for Bird Flu.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, November, 2005

Byline: Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- To many agricultural purists, corporate control of food production is for the birds. The business model, however, could be a key component in preventing an outbreak of avian influenza within the U.S. poultry industry, say two poultry experts based at Purdue University.

Because nearly all commercial poultry production in the United States is company-managed - a system known as vertical integration - production processes are safer and more efficient, said Todd Applegate, Purdue Extension poultry specialist. Such production practices are not as common in Asia and other nations where bird flu is a problem, added Paul Brennan, executive vice president of the Purdue-based Indiana...

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