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“My understanding is these techniques work, but will increase the price of eggs by a few cents each.”

There are always unintended and sometimes serious consequences to anything a government decrees. For example, women can only get child support from the government if they are not married. Hence, some 70% (NPR.org) of black children are born out of wedlock. No government program or policy I’m aware of works without some serious negative consequences.

Now, chickens. Just one company I knew of in the United States harvests (are you ready?) twelve million chickens per day 360 days per year. (From my MBA class in 2005.) Chickens come to harvest weight in just six weeks. (Instead of one year, or 52 weeks.) This is due to genetic manipulation and chicken food full of estrogen.

Chicken is the cheapest meat anywhere and, in places like Italy, it is, for all practical purposes, the only meat most kids eat. Thus, it is “normal” for prepubescent Italian boys to have breasts. Sometimes, substantial breasts. This is due to the amount of estrogen required to bring a chicken to the optimum weight in the shortest time. Estrogen does not cook out.

So, what further manipulation intended to produce only female chickens will find its way into our food stocks and, what will be the impact? We may not realize for years that the ratio of male to female humans has changed, and, then it will take more years to discover what causes the change. Or, it could be something benign. It could be all males whose mothers consumed chicken while pregnant, will be born with blue eyes. The point is, the government experiments without even realizing they are experimenting.

They care about chickens and pig crates, but not stray cats or even people. If they cared about the homeless, they’d put them in institutions oriented towards helping them, or at least keep them from breaking up the fabric of our economies as they do now. So, why the one, chickens and not, say kittens or the homeless? It’s because their aim is to damage businesses as much as possible. There’s no way to do that with laws about cats. But, the reason they encourage homelessness, (what do you call providing free needles?) is, the homeless damage businesses. Simple as that.