Alesia Cooper, a mother from Irving, Texas, posted a picture of some chicken breasts she purchased, saying she hoped someone could identify the problem since the chicken began to rip into spaghetti-like strands as soon as she started making supper.
Under the picture she sent to the internet on March 21, she commented, "I been debating on posting this but since I had to see it so do yall."
"A few weeks ago, while I was preparing dinner for my kids, I cleaned my meat as usual, and when I went back to cook, it turned into this (SIC)." Cooper gave an explanation.
Cooper said, "lol I think it's that fake meat but I'm not sure anyways," adding that the meat was purchased at the discount store Aldi.Since then, I haven't cooked chicken from the bone.
People responded on the picture, as was to be anticipated, voicing their worries and offering their thoughts.
One user said, "That's lab grown chicken, it's a new way they make chicken because the bird flu and resource shortages the last few years left them without produce. Last year they announced that they found a way to make chicken in a lab and that's what's in stores now."
"Fake, I no longer believe it," said a second person.
"It's not meat that was 3D printed or developed in a lab. It is derived from actual hens. Someone else said, "The issue arises when avaricious chicken farmers force-feed their birds growth hormones, causing them to develop far too quickly.
According to a Wall Street study, when breeders give poultry drugs to induce growth, the result is a spaghetti-like appearance on the chicken breast.
Professor of agriculture and food science at the University of Bologna in Italy, Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, said, "There is proof that these abnormalities are associated with fast-growing birds."
In the past, it would take 112 days for a chicken to reach its market weight of 2.5 pounds; but, in recent years, it has only taken 47 days for birds to average 5.03 pounds.
