Sublime

Chicken production remains a dirty business. Five companies—Tyson Foods, based in Arkansas; Pilgrim’s Pride, a multinational company that began as a feed store in Pittsburg, Texas; Perdue of Salisbury, Maryland; Sanderson Farms, the only Fortune 1000 company in Mississippi; and Koch Foods of Illinois—all with processing factories in Mississippi, to

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At the bottom is the plain old farmyard chicken, raised—en liberté, as the French say—in the open air in the traditional way, allowed to feed on whatever nature provides. Then we have the biological or organic chicken, with a controlled diet that is guaranteed free of any chemical seasonings. And finally, there is the ultimate chicken, the only chi

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