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Chicken Genome Sequenced
Jonmann writes "The chicken (Gallus gallus) genome has been sequenced by the International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium. The new genome map provides new, more detailed clues as to how birds diverged from mammals in the course of evolution." I, for one, welcome our new 5-foot-tall, all-white-meat, pre-coated-with-tasty-batter chicken overlords.
Does that make anyone else scratch their head and wonder what other kind of downright stupid consortiums we have? I mean it's a noble cause, no doubt, but calling it a consortium feigns a certain amount of dignity to chicken research that I'm not prepared to give.
hmm all WHITE meat from the WHITE chicken farmers? who may one day visit the WHITE house? Huh. I see how you are.
I for one welcome our DARK meat 8 foot tall DARK feathered chickens, with the crushing toes and the beak and the poking and the crushing and the hey hey it hurts me.
Q: How do you know when a joke has jumped the shark?
A: When even the Slashdot editors are making it!
Come on, they don't even read the site! It's like when your parents start using a slang term, you automatically realise that it's no longer cool.
The chicken (Gallus gallus)
Shouldn't that be Bokkus bokkus?
Damien
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A commercial chicken's purpose in life (if you can call it living) is to eat and produce eggs, meat, or more chickens.
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Exactly. Whereas a chicken's purpose in the wild is to eat, produce eggs, more chicken and feed foxes.
The commercial exploitation of chickens is absolutely horrible.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
They still do not know what came first.