5/21/2002: Featherless chicken
 

http://cellar.org/2002/chicken.jpg

It was photoshopped not once but twice on Fark, so I'm a little reluctant to use this shot as the IotD when it's the last day of our classified ad there. I try not to use major Fark images but this one is just too damn good, and most of our regular folks are not farkers.

And new user "lawman" sent it in as a suggestion. Sure, why not? (Thanks!)

And the Fark folks won't have gotten the info on it, which lawman passed along, and is just as interesting:

http://www.reuters.com/news_article....toryID=984309#

The quick story: someday most chickens could look like this. A geneticist developed this bird by cross-breeding. The featherless version is good for the environment, because you don't have a load of feathers left over after processing, and feather removal also consumes massive amounts of water.

But it's also good to help keep the birds cool as they grow, and to help chickens live better in hot climates.

dang
 

If you ever wanted more evidence that birds evolved out of dinosaurs, there ya go.

It should also be noted that the featherless chicken is less fatty, as not having feathers means it requires less fat. So it'll be better for you too. Wahoo!

Dinos -> Birds
 

I worked at several ostrich farms for almost 5 years, and being in the midst of a herd of hundreds birds running around you, it feels just like the scene in Jurassic Park where the dinosaurs run past the people. Not that Jurassic Park is authentic in any sort, but that's just how it felt.

Not real purty though. We're testing out a few different breeds here, they roam freely during the day and have to be suitable for eggs and meat. I don't see this guy out-witting a hawk or fox.


edit smelling earrors

Not to mention... increase corporate profits
 

They are also trying to create birds with no beaks so they can put more birds in a single cage without the birds pecking each other to death.

I'm all for technological progress. However, corporate progress and technological progress are not the same thing.

So which is uglier, this featherless bird, or the hairless cat... (at least most of us don't eat cats...)

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I'm thinking pay per view.

Corporate progress vs. technical progress not the same: true, although that discussion would take us another 40 posts and probably belong in Politics as well, so despite my instincts... I'm not gonna touch that one!

Go Leafs Go
 

... or in Toronto.

Battery Farming
 

Wow, thats a spooky looking chicken, looks like its already been marinaded in tandoori sauce ready to eat :)

One of the things the uk media has reported about this today (sorry, no link) is that this kind of beast will fare much better in the overcrowded battery farming system due to it not overheating and perishing prematurely.

Once in a while, I'll see a sci-fi show staged on another planet, and marvel at the alien, hairless, fleshy beasts that inhabit it.

Apparantly I was looking at Earth's future all along. But we knew that, didn't we?

And this is how you cook 'em
 

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