Here's a step-by-step rundown of everything a chicken goes through before it lands in your belly.

Americans love their chicken. Rotisserie, fried, sautéed, in nugget form … in 2008 alone, 36.9 billion pounds of chicken were produced in the U.S., and the vast majority of them came out of large factory farms. So that got us thinking: What does it take to get a chicken from egg to grocery store? Here's a step-by-step rundown of the process, as well as few other juicy tidbits of information, including trade fights, production disagreements and some choice details about the processing poultry goes through before it gets to your mouth. Photo Credit: Machine is Organic