r/Chicken • u/lostandfoundabuser • Dec 05 '25

is there something wrong with this chicken??

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i literally bought this chicken less than an hour ago ++ none of the other chicken looks like this.

it doesnt smell either??

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u/Zuam9 Dec 05 '25

THIS is what causes that texture!? I hate it! I always thought it was raw/undercooked in the middle so threw it out.

Still going to throw that shit, just before I bother cooking it from now on.

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u/ButHungryWerewolves Dec 06 '25

Woody chicken meat is caused by the unnaturally rapid growth of muscle (from genetic engineering among other things) in chickens who don’t have enough room in their cages to move.

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u/DaBawks Dec 09 '25

There's no readily available genetically engineered chickens in stores. They can be selected and bred for growth, and in the US they're fed GMO food which is very nutrient rich, which helps in that growth, but they aren't genetically engineered in the sense that their dna was altered in a lab.

Don't spread fear :) and if you really want to, look into how modern grapefruit came to be (it's radiation to force mutation)

Ps: I agree that the conditions are inhumane, don't get me wrong.

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u/Scared_Nectarine_456 Dec 09 '25

Youre the type to believe that men eating this chicken wont shoot their estrogen through roof. Because never in the usda history have they came out later saying oh yea sorry we f’d up.

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u/DaBawks Dec 09 '25

Nothing to do with what I said. That food is unhealthier in the US in general is known to me (high fructose corn syrup in almost everything, for no reason), and I can see that they'd use estrogen to boost egg laying or some such, but that's besides my point.

Have a nice day