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Interesting that they say "raise corn" and "grow chickens".

• saalweachter 9y ago
  There may be two distinctions in the language. First, chicken "production" is generally separated into "layers" and "growers". Layers are chickens you raise to lay eggs, growers are chickens you raise just to grow big enough to eat. So "grow" in the "raise vs grow" context may influenced by the "layer vs grower" context. The second is that there is a split between people who raise livestock through their full life cycle, breeding them and raising them to a finished weight, versus people who just breed or just finish livestock; the "factory chickens" will typically be just a finishing operation, so "grow" may also be influenced by that. The third possibility is that it's an in-joke by the farmers, on how the chickens have become more of a crop than the corn. The fourth possibility, of course, is that it's just a transcription error by the authors, and the farmers say "grow corn and raise chickens".