We can build whatever animal you want to eat, say scientists

TINKER with the genetics of salmon and maybe you create a revolutionary new food source that could help the environment and feed the hungry.

Or maybe you're creating what some say is an untested "frankenfish" that could cause unknown allergic reactions and the eventual decimation of the wild salmon population.

The US Food and Drug Administration hears both arguments this week when it begins a two-day meeting on whether to approve the marketing of the genetically engineered fish, which would be the first such animal approved for human consumption.

The agency has already said the salmon, which grows twice as fast as conventional salmon, is as safe to eat as the traditional variety.

Approval of the salmon would open the door for a variety of other genetically engineered animals, including an environmentally friendly pig that is being developed in Canada or cattle that are resistant to mad cow disease.

The ‘tractor’ is a PVC formed portable quansit type construction that is covered with plastic on the top and sides, then has a hole cut in the side with a chicken-wire fence. You put the chicks in, and they are on the ground - you set in a water feeder and a feeder. The chickens peck the ground, eat the grass and make a mess.

Then every couple of days you take a rope and drag the PVC constuction 10-20 feet to fresh grass. The chickens pile up at the back and if they don’t run to the front of the ‘tractor’ they are drug that distance.

If some chickens roll out from under the ‘tractor’; they will walk 5-10 feet; but then have to sit down and rest. Tehy are so breast heavy that they simply cannot run at all.

When we slaughtered 20 of them, we had less than 2 gallons of feathers. These birds were practically bald. They have been bred to grow very quickly, and produce little waste (feathers). That’s why the chicken you buy today has very little taste - when compared to the chickens we grew up with.

Now, some ‘ Gentlemen Farmers’ raise the old Banty Hens, and these birds grow huge and slow. They are primarily your egg laying hens (which surprisingly have zero commercial value - they are killed and buried). These chickens actually have flavor to the meat.

You are absolutely correct. However the folks with money and S**t for brains will spend money on the other form of scum. Namely greedy lawyers to control everyone else. And its all about control and the “Chicken Little” principal which they seem to have in abundance.

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