12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Two: The Great Rooster Virility Crisis

On the Second Day of JOURNOS, Stephen sinks his teeth into a juicy story: What happened to the chicken tenders? Is there really a shortage, or is it just a case of price fluctuations leading to crispy, clickable headlines? 

Stephen watches with cool amusement as a poorly sourced TODAY story inspires a sampling of imitators, and the occasional sales pitch. It's a game of Southern-fried telephone that leaves out essential ingredients like drought and climate change.

Meanwhile, Brandon recalls the flurry of stories in which chicken shortages were blamed on roosters not being cock enough to perform, which is maybe a cross-species kind of anti-male bias? Anyway it all ends up, as it must, in that hot feathery internet coop dedicated to all things prepper, where shortages today mean martial law tomorrow and, oh yeah, buy some gold.