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Total spending on food, drinks, apparel, decorations and other purchases for the day is expected to reach a record $17.3 billion, or $86.04 per person. So what are Americans going to eat on Super Bowl Sunday? Dips.

A new proposal to reduce wastewater discharges from meat and poultry slaughterhouses and processing plants has the Environmental Protection Agency facing criticism from both environmentalists and the meat industry.

If you've ever had a rotisserie chicken and wondered why it's so satisfying compared to other forms of chicken, we finally have some answers for you.

Poultry processors and their customers are benefiting as chicken wing demand is still flying high.

Agriculture officials in the Biden administration are testing four vaccines in hopes of stanching the latest outbreak of a highly pathogenic avian influenza that has devastated U.S. poultry farms and driven up egg prices, with plans to launch a national vaccination campaign that would be the first-ever effort of its kind.

A lawsuit argues that the Buffalo Wild Wings chain’s white meat ‘boneless wings’ are ‘more akin, in composition, to a chicken nugget rather than a chicken wing.’

There are fears the virus could jump to humans if it acquires dangerous mutations while infection rates in animals are sky-high. A record 60m birds in the US have been culled so far this outbreak,

The largest outbreak of avian influenza in U.S. history has driven up egg prices and raised concerns about a human pandemic, though C.D.C. experts say the risk of that is low.

The outbreak is already more widespread than the last major bird flu outbreak in 2015.

By JOSH FUNK