With Covid, World Affairs And The Ever Increasing Energy Bills Taking The Headlines,

GM modified crops and foods seem to have taken a back seat,

so I was interested to read a few articles about this chicken, photograph from the blogsite of Lois L. Kersey, in 1948, the "Chicken of the Tomorrow" a contest was launched in the United States, 

The Chicken of Tomorrow, John E. Weidlich Collection at USDA chickens at that time we small and not particularly good to cook, winners of the contest were lauded for producing a four pound broiler in 12 weeks with 12 pounds of feed, with controlled environment housing, prescription rations and careful bio security, the chicken of today touts a five pound broiler in about 42 days with less than 10 pounds of feed! the winner was chickens raised by farmer Franks Saglio. The chickens at the Saglio farm were crossed with others bred in England and from there came the super chicken called the Arbor Acre, which came to dominate the world's genetic stock of chickens. Arbor Acre is a much larger bird than normal hens and has large meaty breasts and thick thighs and here is the thing, eight out of ten chickens consumed in the world are descended from the chicken shown in the photograph above, so the chances are that you have eaten a genetically modified chicken at some time in your life!