"Ten years ago, the poultry muscle disease known as white striping was almost nonexistent. Now, the fat-boosting ailment shows up in 99% of U.S. store-brand chickens, according to a Humane League study." https://t.co/r8cqL6z7Zp

The illness is driven by the extreme conditions of factory farming, which turbocharges the raising process to a matter of weeks...With the chickens unable to bear the weight of their own bodies, the disease causes the birds to replace some of their muscle tissue with fat."

There is this conceit in our food conversation that meat from animals is "natural," while cultivated meats, or plant-based alternatives, are unnatural.

But there's nothing natural about most of the meat sold in stores. We've turned these chickens into technologies.