You get free grass to feed your cattle, the railroad to transport it and there are a lot of steak on a cow. Meanwhile you don't have an industrial production o

You get free grass to feed your cattle, the railroad to transport it and there are a lot of steak on a cow. Meanwhile you don't have an industrial production of eggs, so you get at best one egg every day per chicken, more likely one or two every three days. That is of course if you assume it is egg season. A chicken in every pot was a slogan for Johnsons great society, because chicken was a luxury. It would have stayed that way, but then capitalism happened.