chickenize

From chicken +‎ -ize. In the business sense popularized by American journalist Christopher Leonard in the context of the US poultry industry, where just a few companies control almost all aspects of chicken production, such as feed, medicines, and chicken houses. This model was later followed by other industries (they chickenized).

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chickenize (third-person singular simple present chickenizes, present participle chickenizing, simple past and past participle chickenized)

1. (transitive) To make chicken-like or suitable for chickens.
2. (transitive, intransitive, uncommon, business) To make (an industry or field of commerce) into a vertically and horizontally integrated industry.

   Coordinate term: Walmartize

   • 2014, Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 152:

     To compete with the chicken industry, hog and cattle producers could follow the model that Moeller was slowly building for pig farms. They could chickenize.

   • 2022, Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism […] , Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:

     Chokepoint capitalists want to chickenize everything they can, so they can control—and capture the lion's share of value from—other people's labor. Now the live music industry is being chickenized too.