Broiler chickens, destined for the dinner table, are four times bigger than half a century ago, says Vox, which summarizes a paper in Poultry Science with the headline “Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since the 1950s.” Breeders created chicken that are bigger and three times more efficient in converting feed into meat but also carry some skeletal, metabolic… » Read More
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