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• NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Go vegan

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  • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, we want to eat the hormone infused turkey chicken hybrid!

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    • AnonWyo@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Turducken would like a word.

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    • JustMy2c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How else we can grow Manboob?

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  • nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh thanks.

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  • Sorgan71@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m happy to eat meat if it tastes good. They are animals after all.

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  • Sorgan71@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m happy to eat meat if it tastes good. They are animals after all.

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    • wafflez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone in Iceland just starved to death.

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• Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The explanation behind this is actually pretty disturbing. Due to the growth hormones we feed chickens in America, the chickens become fully grown much earlier than usual. It’s like the equivalent of becoming a fully grown adult by the time you are the age of five, but you still have the mental capacity of a five year old.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chickens do not receive any hormones. It’s been banned in poultry in the U.S. since the 1950’s when it was tested and shown to be ineffective. Beef commonly gets hormone implants in their ears. No hormones are approved or used in feed.

    The rapid growth of the birds is mostly due to selective breeding and nutritional improvements. The growth rate and adult size in animals can be massively changed by breeders. Just look at the Great Dane and mini-yorky in dogs.

    They also use antibiotics in the feed to reduce the bacteria load of the birds. This does increase the growth rate and reduces sick birds and deaths. It is not a good idea when it comes to antibiotic resistance buildup in bacteria however.

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    • Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For any Canadians reading this, adding hormones or steroids to meat and dairy animals has always been prohibited here for all types of livestock.

      Antibiotics are allowed on sick cows and pigs but they can’t be used for dairy or meat until they’ve been off the antibiotics for a period of time that is supposed to be long enough to flush it from their system. Chickens are too short lived and antibiotics are prohibited if they are to be sold for human consumption.

      You know how A&W advertises that their beef is free of added hormones and steroids? Well that’s actually true for all meat sold in Canada. A&W is just the only one advertising it. Pretty clever as campaign, actually.

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    • Krukenberg@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They also use antibiotics in the feed […] It is not a good idea

      It’s a fucking collision course with reality doomed to send us back to the 19th century.

      But of course, for a short duration of human history, it marginally increased the profits for stakeholders.

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve raised Cornish crosses and fed them normal, quality feed without any hormones: they ended up looking just like the chicken on the right.

    They’re big because they’ve been selectively bred to be big, docile, and stupid.

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hormones in farm feed have been abolished back in the 80s. This is from breeding selective breeds . Stop watching shitty Facebook videos. Your brain has been rotted.

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    • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I literally corrected the sentence from “hormones” to “selective breeding” and it’s still factual. Simple mistake. I don’t watch shitty Facebook videos, and my brain isn’t rotten… I just miss remembered what I assume was the scene from super size me 2 mentioned by another poster.

      I also included a quote and a citation and my original post about how they grow so large so fast they often collapse under their own weight.

      Truly the greatest of errors misremebering that was because of hormones 🙄

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    • kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not hormones, non-medical antibiotic use is absolutely a contributing factor though.

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  • LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s disturbing about it?

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    • DillyDaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you watch Super Size Me 2, they go into a lot more detail on why the selective breeding is so disturbing.

      Amoung other things, the birds are bred for meat muscle development, their cardiovascular systems have not been equally enhanced and as a result, chicken farmers know that the birds are big enough for slaughter because some of them will just start dropping dead of heart failure.

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    • eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s like the movie “Big”, except the chicken did not wish for it.

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    • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Growth hormones in your food - what could go wrong?

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  • Xin_shill@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vegan not lying to try to make a point, challenge level impossible

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I dunno my dude, KFC chicken be shrinkin’…

  lemmy.world/post/9994279

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s good. The fucking broilers these days eat eachother because they need the energy.

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    • Enk1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Heritage breeds are the way to go if you can find them. Taste better and typically more humanely raised.

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  • CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a drumlet

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard of a drumlet before I posted this thread.

      But our KFC order was literally a 12 piece legs and thighs. So why we get this jank shit?

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• Shard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In about 65 million years this guy will be the size of a T-Rex

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At thw current rrate of growth it would be larger than the earth in under 1500 years.

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    • SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did the math They did the monster math

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• Raxiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess that’s also why people started having turkey for big family gatherings even through chicken tastes better.

  Now a chicken is perfectly adequate for a family of four, or even six depending on the trimmings.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t want them bigger. I want them to have 12 legs and wings so there’s more of the good parts.

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    • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok, but for real, though? Actually, that’s a good idea. Factory chicken farms are already grotesque, but if we bring in Cronenberg and the ghost of H.R. Giger to design these monstrosities, it’ll put people off eating it entirely.

      Not a veggo for the record; I just feel like I probably should be.

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    • SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

      Squidbillies did it

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A 2kg chicken is enough for four where two are children

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Took a long time to pokevolve.

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• Mighty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this chicken is probably less than 2 years old. chickens could live for 10years if they’d be left alone.

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  • eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think chickens raised for meat live anywhere near 2 years. Yeah, a quick google shows around a 2 month harvest time for chickens raised for meat. That’s a big part of why chickens are such amazing creatures and make such an affordable protein source, they can be sustainably* harvested year round. (Sustainably as in without decreasing the size of your flock.)

    Laying hens are productive for two to three years. They rarely make it into the human food supply though, after that long the texture and flavor of the meat changes and American consumers don’t prefer it. You can probably get them through a local butcher shop, though they might have to order it for you.

    In a small and well managed flock, chickens can live 6 to 8 years. In the wild, I don’t think modern chickens would exist at all. Ask anyone who’s kept chickens, keeping the hawks and foxes and raccoons etc. out of them is a constant and eternal struggle.

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ask anyone who’s kept chickens, keeping the hawks and foxes and raccoons etc. out of them is a constant and eternal struggle.

      Two things I have learned as a chicken weirdo:

      1.) Get dark colored chickens

      2.) Get a big mean rooster.

      I haven’t lost a chicken so far, but I have seen my bigass stupidly brave rooster take on all comers, he has defeated squirrels, snakes, frogs, mice, and a gopher that was apparently pretty bad at making connections. I’ve watched him chase off a cat and a pretty good sized dog. Foghorn Leghorn is more accurate than I realized.

      But more than his incredible dinosaur kung-fu is that he is smart, and communicates with his hens. He will tell them to shelter in the coop, and they will run and hide. A hawk isn’t going to want to deal with 15 pounds of land-bird standing in a small doorway.

      For the color, a black or gray chicken will be harder to see against the ground than a white one. Also, I think they look cooler than plain white chickens.

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    • Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      without decreasing the size of your flock. Read that as “without decreasing the size of your cock”

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ideal period is 7 weeks. Anything below that is not meaty enough, anything above is too old and stringy meat.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chickens often die shortly after mating. At least, the one I fucked did.

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    • XiELEd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      bruh

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  • JustMy2c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No. It is much, much, much worse.

    I quote :

    Broilers chickens are specially bred for fast growth and slaughtered when they weigh approximately four pounds, usually between seven and nine weeks of age. Birds between 12 and 20 weeks of age, typically weighing between five and ten pounds, are called roasters

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• ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So is that username pronounced “Ho Mobile” as in a car for hoes or “Homo Bile” as in stomach acid from gay people?

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  • whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or even Ho Mobile, as in a phone company

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Homo bi le

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• TheDeepState@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like big breast.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • lustyargonian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like big scales

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• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Efficiency.

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• Teon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  50! She's a tough old bird.

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• yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The same age

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• ImmaculateTaste@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m biggest bird

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  420 too!

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• XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This Pokemon has been evolving for half a century…

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now that I’ve experience 4202 x gravity, I must train in 4202 x gravity!

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