{"id":3371,"date":"2014-10-06T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:59:34","slug":"chickens-now-uncomfortably-large-says-national-chicken-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/chickens-now-uncomfortably-large-says-national-chicken-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens now uncomfortably large, says National Chicken Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several things about this article <\/a>jumped out at me as I read it.<\/p>\n

First off, it seems that we are doing a FANTASTIC job of breeding chickens in the last 50 years or more.\u00c2\u00a0 How good are we at breeding chickens you may ask?\u00c2\u00a0 Let me tell you.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that overall the size of a chicken today is 4 times that of a chicken in the 1950s.\u00c2\u00a0 For some perspective, this means\u00c2\u00a0that we are probably going to manage to breed a chicken large enough to feed a whole street, followed immediately by creating a chicken large enough to\u00c2\u00a0kill many streets of peaceful humans, all of which could happen\u00c2\u00a0within my lifetime.<\/p>\n

\"Rise<\/a>

Who wants chicken fingers now, Timmy?<\/p><\/div>\n

This is all very reminiscent of a Patton Oswalt bit, in which he eerily predicted this very outcome.\u00c2\u00a0 I give you:\u00c2\u00a0 MEGALEG<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IeEnhoL4hSg
\nThe second thing that I noticed about this article is the fact that there is a\u00c2\u00a0National\u00c2\u00a0Chicken Council<\/a>, which fortunately (or rather unsurprisingly)\u00c2\u00a0exists in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 It had not occurred to me that this would be a necessary organization, but then again with the inevitable Rise of the Chickens ™, it would probably make good sense to keep\u00c2\u00a0a close watch on these terrifying, but still\u00c2\u00a0tasty critters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several things about this article jumped out at me as I read it. First off, it seems that we are doing a FANTASTIC job of breeding chickens in the last 50 years or more.\u00c2\u00a0 How good are we at breeding … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","tag-megaleg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rise-of-the-chicken.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-Sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}