| Sam Granger |
04-09-2006 11:32 PM |
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Originally Posted by u-Bob
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EXPERTS have bred a bald chicken that they reckon will be tastier and lower in fat than its feathered relatives. The naked fowl is also designed to grow faster than normal broilers and be more "environmentally friendly" because there is no need to waste energy plucking it. But animal rights groups last night condemned the boffins who bred the bird and demanded their experiments be stopped. Joyce D'Silva, of Compassion in World
Farming, said: "It's appalling. It has been done so they can crowd chickens together in sheds in hot countries."
Adrian Bebb of Friends of the Earth added: "This is scientists tampering with our food again just to make it even cheaper. "I think it will have a traumatic effect on the animals and the public will be horrified." Spencer Fitzgibbon, from the Green Party, said: ?It?s a monster of an animal. We should be working with nature, not against it.
"The bottom line here is profit but it should be animal welfare." The red-skinned fowl is the creation of Israeli genetics expert Avigdor Cahaner.
He said it would grow faster in hot weather because it was not prone to over-heating like normal birds, whose growth rate drops when they get too warm.
Mr Cahaner said: "That is why poultry meat is expensive in hot countries." - The Sun, 21st May 2002. |
