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Thursday, September 19, 2019
Twice the Bird, in Half the Time, With Less Feed
Thanks to unnatural selection alone (no hormones are used) today's meat chickens are more than twice as big, in half the time, at a cost of less than half the feed per pound, and with one fifth the mortality of their brethren 65 years ago.
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