- Hello Jeff,
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- This article will go perfectly with the Terminator Chicken
article that I sent you. The Terminator chicken was about the GM chicken
with the human gene. Well, here is, yet, another GM chicken story.
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- For the life of me, I cannot understand why people eat
meat. Some think that eating chicken is healthy. Wrong!
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- Patty _____
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- GM Chickens Too Fat To Walk
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- By Jeremy Armstrong The Mirror - London 11-2-00
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- Monster chickens too fat to waddle around are being bred
for sale to millions of shoppers.
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- The grotesque birds, up to three times their normal size,
were genetically selected by Britain's largest chicken supplier, Grampian
Country Food Group.
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- It provides 3.8 million chickens a week to some of Britain's
biggest stores including Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's, as well as restaurants,
butchers and London's famous Smithfield market.
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- But undercover investigators at one of their farms found
chickens with broken and deformed legs, unable to take their own weight
as a result of generation after generation of genetic selection.
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- Campaigners filmed birds scarcely able to move around
the giant shed, their legs painfully splayed because of their massive weight.
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- Last night Britain's leading food retailers launched
their own investigation after being alerted by the Mirror.
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- A Tesco spokesman said: "We take these allegations
very seriously. We will investigate."
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- And a Sainsbury's spokesman said: "We are investigating.
We take animal welfare very seriously, all of our suppliers have strict
guidelines."
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- Asda said they, too, were investigating and added: "We
are very concerned to hear these allegations."
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- Martin Coutts, spokes-man for the Hillside investigation
unit which filmed at the farm earlier this month, said: "Today's broiler
is a genetic freak. Many end up with horrendous abnormalities.
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- "They live in the same position day after day, until
they are slaughtered."
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- The birds filmed were reared at East Farm in Norwich
for Scottish giant Grampian, which supplies 200 million chickens a year
and describe their "super roaster" as a market leader.
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- Investigators also found the bodies of dead birds among
the thousands milling around the shed.
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- Grampian Food Group, of Aberdeen, said in a statement
representatives had seen the video and were "shocked by part of its
content. We take allegations over the welfare of the flock very seriously."
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- Marketing manager Alasdair Cox told the Mirror: "You
do get problems of this nature on farms, but it is not as common as this
video suggests." _____
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