Under Federal regulations, chicken processors are allowed to add water to chickens - on average up to 8 percent of the bird's weight.

Say "Perdue" and TV watchers will most likely snap back "Frank" for the feisty pitchman of the nation's fourth-largest chicken processor.

Whether the new name raised the feathers of chicken processors is lost to the past.

You can fight that big industrial windmill like the paper companies and the chicken processors, or you can be Governor of this state.

But big processors like Tyson Foods of Arkansas, the largest chicken processor in the country, said "fresh frozen" was a pejorative term.

(Eduardo Bours, a member of the family that owns Mexico's largest chicken processor, was one of Mexico's Nafta negotiators.)

I blocked off the motel parking lot with sawhorses and deputized a couple of unemployed chicken processors to fend off the tourists for the rest of the day.

Despite that unusual résumé, John Tyson is now the chairman and chief executive of Tyson Foods, the nation's biggest chicken processor.

Tyson Foods, the world's largest chicken processor, is located in Springdale.

Now they are on a buying spree, snapping up farms, auto makers and auto-engine plants, oil companies, chicken processors, television makers, mobile-phone companies airlines and more.