According to the UGBA, raising game fowl is a $4 billion industry, involving about 300,000 family farmers across the country.
The game fowl is probably the nearest to the Indian red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), from which all domestic chickens are believed to be descended.
"There's thousands of people being hurt," said Ronald Barron, the president of the New Mexico Game Fowl Association, one of the plaintiffs in the suit.
People usually just roast their game fowl – which is fine of course – but there are also some great ways to get a bit more variety out of the bird, such as using the breast for one dish and the thighs for another, and the sinewy drumsticks for a broth or sauce.
The potlatch tradition of the Pacific Northwest, said Ed Pitoniak, a former hotel executive here who is one of the region's most eloquent tutors, "owes a lot to the fact that this land- and seascape has always been rich in protein: shellfish, swimming fish, game, fowl".
During the 1930s Oppenheim created assemblages of everyday items, many of which evoked eroticism, such as My Nurse (1936), a pair of women's high-heeled shoes trussed together like a game fowl, with paper frills (crowns) on the heels, and placed sole-side up on a platter.
There were dozens of scarred pit bulls, many tied to heavy logging chains, and about 100 game fowl.
Roman "foodies" indulged in wild game, fowl such as peacock and flamingo, large fish (mullet was especially prized), and shellfish.
It also bears some traits of Game fowl in frame and disposition, being assertive in character and a very good forager.
The property with the shanties, a game-fowl farm, was facing zoning and health-code violations.
