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Alesia Cooper, a mom from Irving, Texas, posted a picture of chicken breasts she purchased. When she began cooking dinner, the chicken fell apart into strands like spaghetti. She was puzzled and wanted to know what went wrong.
"I was thinking about sharing this, but since I had to see it, you all should too," she wrote below the picture she shared on March 21.
"A few weeks ago, while preparing dinner for my children, I was cleaning the meat as usual. When I returned to start cooking it, something unexpected happened." Cooper gave an explanation.
Cooper said the meat was purchased at the affordable supermarket Aldi. He added, "I think it might be imitation meat, but I'm not certain. I haven't cooked bone-in chicken in a while."
As usual, people commented on the photo, expressing their worries and sharing their ideas.
"That's chicken made in a lab. It's a new way of producing chicken due to recent bird flu outbreaks and shortages of resources. Last year, they announced they had developed a method to create chicken in a lab, and that's what is available in stores now," wrote one person.
"Fake, I don't believe it anymore," someone else said.
"It's not meat grown in a lab or meat printed in 3D." It comes from actual chickens. The issue arises when chicken farmers give their chickens growth hormones to make them grow too quickly," another person mentioned.
According to Wall Street, chicken breasts can look different when farmers feed chickens chemicals to make them grow bigger.
"Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy, stated that there is evidence linking these irregularities to birds that grow quickly."
In the past, it took chickens 112 days to reach a weight of 2.5 pounds for sale. Nowadays, chickens on average reach a weight of 5.03 pounds in 47 days.
"If more people continue to eat chicken, chickens may need to grow larger. We will also need to have more breast meat in each chicken." Dr. Michael Lilburn, a professor at Ohio State University's Poultry Research Center, stated.
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