When the chicken she was making for supper broke into stringy spaghetti strands, a Texas housewife was taken aback.

The woman posted a picture of the raw chicken she was cleaning on social media since she was unable to eat pasta that evening. She had a crumbled chicken in her hand.

 

In her now-viral Facebook post, she urges people to adopt a vegan diet, stating, “I think it’s that fake meat.” To find out more about the stringy chicken, keep reading!

Alesia Cooper, an Irving, Texas resident, posted a horrific image of a chicken breast on March 21 in protest of its possible placement on a dinner plate.

 

 

 

 

The mother of two adds, “I have been thinking about posting this, but since I had to see it, I thought you guys should too.” The post includes an image of chicken ripping into spaghetti-like strands and adds, “I was cooking my kids dinner a couple of weeks ago and was cleaning my meat like I normally do and when I went back to start cooking it turned into this (SIC).”

Cooper adds, “I think it’s that fake meat but I’m not sure anyways,” after revealing that she bought the chicken breast from the low-cost store Aldi.Since then, I haven’t made chicken off the bone.

 

In the comments area, internet users promptly expressed their thoughts on the subject; some asserted that the chicken was either produced in a petri dish or 3D printed.

“That’s lab grown chicken, it’s a new way they make chicken because they didn’t have produce for the past few years due to the bird flu and resource shortages, so last year they announced that they found a way to make chicken in a lab and that’s what’s in stores now,” someone responds.

 

 

 

“GMO lab meat” is written by someone else.

 

A third concludes that it is “fake” and no longer believes it.

 

“It’s not lab-grown meat or 3D printed meat,” claims another user, offering a more sensible justification for the chicken breast strips. The source of it is real chickens. The problem occurs when greedy chicken farmers force-feed growth hormones to their birds, which causes them to grow too quickly.

 

Greater breast size
The Wall Street Journal claims that in addition to the hard, chewy flesh known as “woody breast,” “spaghetti meat” has also been generated by growing big-breasted birds to grow more quickly.

Profit may rise as a result of producing more meat per bird.

 

According to Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, a professor of agriculture and food science at the University of Bologna in Italy, “there is proof that these abnormalities are associated with fast-growing birds,” the WSJ reported.

Despite their unsettling names, industry experts claim that consuming “spaghetti meat” and “wooly breast” won’t hurt you.

 

 

 

 

However, because the chickens’ massive bodies are too big for their small legs to support, it will harm them.

 

chubby chickens
The National Chicken Council released data showing that broiler hens, or chicks reared for meat, are growing significantly faster than they used to. In 2000, the average chicken weighed 5.03 pounds at 47 days of age when it was sold. Although the fat birds now weigh 6.54 pounds, the average chicken still reaches the market at 47 days old in 2023.

In 1925, it took broilers 112 days to attain a market weight of 2.5 pounds, which is comparable to data from over a century earlier.

 

The industry changed to give hens “proportionally larger breasts” in response to the growing demand for white meat throughout the previous century.

According to the Washington Post, Dr. Michael Lilburn, a professor at Ohio State University’s Poultry Research Center, says that if people keep eating more chickens, they will probably need to get significantly bigger. The quantity of breast flesh in each bird will also need to be increased.

 

Lilburn said, “What people don’t realize is that it’s consumer demand that’s forcing the industry to adjust.” Lilburn was referring to the public’s fondness for low-cost chicken goods like sandwiches, wings, and nuts. They are a fairly tiny but loud minority with a lot of legitimate concerns. Most Americans still don’t care where their food comes from, as long as it’s cheap.

Fast food chains and some grocery stores have partially supported the demand for larger breast meat, but some businesses are asking for meat from slow-growing chickens, “arguing that giving birds more time to grow before slaughter will give them a healthier, happier life and produce better-tasting meat,” according to The New York Times.

“I’m switching to a vegan diet.”
However, online users are expressing their dissatisfaction and criticizing the noodled chicken.

A cyberfan asks: “It appears to be worms! What are they giving us?

 

“I had some similar ones a long back. That’s how it appeared on the bottom. Since we were young, things haven’t seemed right. Much fresher,” a second says.

“You’ll get humanely raised and better quality chicken from a local butcher or co-op,” other internet users advised. For your beef, I suggest visiting there instead.

 

Additionally, some were motivated to adopt a vegetarian diet.

“I’m switching to veganism! “There is too much lab food around,” one comments, and another puts it this way: “This is why we are considering going pescatarian.”

It is regrettable that these unlucky animals are having to go through so much suffering in their brief lives as a result of factory farming.