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Would you eat genetically modified chicken wings?

Asked by Strauss (23874points) 1 day ago

Chicken wings have become very popular over the past several decades. If there was a way to produce more wings, for example by genetically modifying chickens so that they developed four wings instead of two, would you be comfortable eating such birds?

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SnipSnip's avatar

If I eat them in a restaurant. If I buy chicken to cook at home I buy organic non-gmo whole chickens. It’s almost impossible to not eat gmo food in the USA. Europe protects the food sources for their people much better than the USA.

Caravanfan's avatar

Fuck yes. Why not?

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

If they can catch them. Then yes.

janbb's avatar

Not if I knew it was harming the chickens.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Of course. They have genetically modifying them through cross-breeding of chickens for hundreds of years. What would I care today?

ragingloli's avatar

Domestication and selective breeding is genetic modification. This has been done for thousands of years.

Blackwater_Park's avatar

If we could just grow wings without the chicken in an industrial lab that would be even better.

ragingloli's avatar

Wings are a waste product fit only for stocks, that Big Ag has propagandised as a delicacy to increase profits.
What you want are the legs.

Brian1946's avatar

I wonder what would happen if I grew wings that were modified by my own genetics.

One day I’d be flappin’ around; paying for purchases, watering my lacrimal ducts, and telling Shakespeare that I’m the girl in the alley, so of course I know me well. ;-p

Then I’d change my jelly name to @Flyin’Buyin’Cryin’Lyin’Brian

gorillapaws's avatar

@Caravanfan “Fuck yes. Why not?”

From a human health and diet perspective I agree, a genetically modified wing wouldn’t be any different, but I think there could be a moral argument made that it’s inhumane to the animals, and that chickens should raised humanely before slaughter. The entire ethics of animal rights is not one I’m well versed in though.

Caravanfan's avatar

Oh for sure. My glib comment was just about the genetics. The ethics is much more tricky and I agree with you

ragingloli's avatar

I do not know why “ethics” is even a factor when it comes to chicken.
They are kept in metal mass prisons without sunlight with barely any space to move. Their eggs are stolen right from under them the moment they leave the cloaca. Those destined for the dinner table, get tasered and have their throats slashed. The freshly hatched male chicks get either shredded alive, or gassed.
What is a bit of crispr on top of that?

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