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They say that one sign of a good cook is being a good eater. By that measure, I should be a very good cook. Instead, I'm a hack in the kitchen. Every meal I make starts with a package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts or a box of pasta (or both). One summer I got my roommate sick by cooking week-old chicken. I learned all I know about cooking from "The Frugal Gourmet" and "Great Chefs" on TV. (Those were the bad old days before Emeril and the Food Network...
...PLAYING CHICKEN It's bad enough that chickens harbor harmful campylobacter bacteria that can sicken humans. Now a soon-to-be-released study shows that the bug is increasingly resistant to quinolines, the main class of antibiotics used to treat the infection. One reason may be the routine use of quinolines in chicken feed. The percentage of quinoline-resistant campylobacter infections has risen to 10.3% today from 5% in 1995--the year quinolines were approved for use in chicken chow. For antibiotic-free birds, try organic...
...Chickens can't fly well anyway, so why not get rid of their wings and replace them with meatier, tastier legs? That's not really why a group of scientists is tinkering with chicken limbs -- the real answer is that their experiments may eventually help prevent human limb deformities. And yet the successful research raises a possibility - monstrous to some, perhaps - tempting to others...
...journal Science reports that researchers at Harvard Medical School have successfully harvested basic chicken legs in chick embryos -- complete with leg-like muscles, and clawed implements -- by transferring a leg gene called Pitx1 into the area of the embryo where the wings usually sprout. Learning about the role of genes in limb formation, they believe, will lead to a greater understanding of limb development in humans and greater knowledge of Holt-Oram syndrome, a condition that produces truncated forearms...
...Could a chicken farmers' conspiracy be lurking behind all this bio-tech talk? Evidently not, but it's the kind of mind-boggling possibility that genetic engineering seems to be raising constantly. Four legs instead of two, not to mention two additional juicy thighs. And who knows? Maybe a quadruple-breasted chicken is just around the corner...