10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2016
She teaches anthropology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA, and lives in Maryland with her husband and not nearly enough pets. America’s Puritans scrapped the common English word “c**k” to describe the male chicken and popularized “rooster” as its replacement. I think it would make a fascinating research study.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.
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