The very genetics of chickens, along with their feed and environment, were now intensively manipulated to produce either excessive amounts of eggs {layers} or flesh, especially breasts {broilers}. From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of "broilers" increased by 65 percent, while their time-to-market dropped 60 percent and their feed requirements dropped 57 percent. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be three hundred pounds in ten years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.
( Jonathan Safran Foer )
[ Eating Animals ]
www.QuoteSweet.com