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Are Chickens Getting Smaller?
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supermarket chickens seem smaller to me over recent years - is this because they now stopping using hormones to make them artificially bigger then they'd normally be?
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:banghead:
Have they stopped using hormones? I doubt it, there's all sorts in supermarket chickens.
The grain virtually all chickens eat is GM, because grain is virtually all GM now, or at least you cant really tell the difference so we dont know whether it is or it isnt.
That's what I was gonna say - I don't think injecting them with hormones to make them grow bigger comes under GM.
GM is like adding a Gene from a Fish to a tomatoe to make them last longer before going bad (which they can actually do)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]United States and Canadian ranchers routinely give synthetic estrogen to their cattle. As a result of the estrogen, the cattle bloat and retain water. Thus, the estrogenized cattle meat is heavier and more tender. Also the fat begins to build up in the animal and marble through the meat. The ranchers can get more money for their cattle because the meat weighs more and is more tender. The ranchers give estrogen to their cattle intentionally for the bloating fattening effect of estrogen.
http://www.goodbyepms.com/
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You'd have thought the "G" in Gene was a clue ..
Oh well you're still smarter then the average
Are you sure your not looking at the poussin in the supermarket