When aliens or our distant progeny sift through layers of sediment 500,000 years from now to decode the Earth’s past, they will find unusual evidence of the abrupt change that upended life half-a-million years earlier: Chicken bones. | AFP
laying out the evidence for the animal as a “marker species” of the Anthropocene. “Body size, the shape of the skeleton, bone chemistry, and genetics are all distinct.”
The species has long been prized for its meat and eggs, but its engineered breeding into the rotund, short-lived creature found in supermarkets the world over started only after World War II. At least 25 million are culled every day, whether for chicken tikka in the Punjab, yakitori in Japan, poulet yassa in Senegal or McDonald’s nuggets everywhere.And while many societies shun the eating of beef or pork, how many cultures in the world do not have chicken on the menu?
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