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Average age of farmers in the U.S. in 2009:
56
According to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: New York Times, 5/14/2010
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Number of certified Farmer's Markets in the U.S. as of 2010:
5,270
Source: New York Times, 5/14/2010
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Estimated number of Chinese lives lost during the Great Famine of the 1950's:
30 million
The famine was referred to by the Communist party as "three years of natural disasters." It has been blamed on Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" movement of 1958, in which he urged farmers to abandon their fields to make steel in the name of financial competition.
Source: Irish Times, 9/13/2005
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Pounds of chicken raised in the U.S. in 2008:
36.5 billion
Up 32% from a decade earlier, according to the National Chicken Council.
Source: Wall Street Journal, 2/12/2009
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