“…Suddenly, the small farmer-based agriculture systems have once again emerged in the commercial public sector as interest has increased in locally grown food markets. Most aspects of food safety research, economics and environmental impacts have been extensively examined in the scientific literature on other emerging poultry trends in developed countries such as organic poultry production and processing (Castellini et al, 2006;O'Bryan et al, 2008;Crandall et al, 2009;Sirsat et al, 2009;Boggia et al, 2010;Gifford and Bernard, 2011;Petkar et al, 2011;Ricke et al, 2012;Van Loo et al, 2012a;2012b;2012c). However, in some regions of the United States the production capabilities have grown much faster than the capacity to effectively process such birds for consistent retail sales (Van Loo et al, 2013b).…”