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Thats horrifying. I'm in favor of GMO plants (of course Monsanto and seed patenting is awful) but I didnt consider GMO animals. Thats particularly evil, of course factory farming with antibiotics and all that is already fucking evil, but damn.
We've been genetically modifying animals for millennia. Every animal that has been domesticated didn't start that way. We bred them, with genetics.
I feel like the comparisons of chickens from the 1950s to those today really highlight this