Chickens are not genetically modified.
The reality? There are no GMO chickens commercially available.
If chickens aren’t genetically modified, then how do they get so big?
The answer is surprisingly simple – traditional breeding. The most critical part of this breeding process is identifying which chickens are the strongest and healthiest – and then they are bred together.
Today’s breeding farms are equipped with the right technologies to create continuous small improvements in each generation. The result of decades of breeding and thousands of generations of birds is the larger and healthier birds that you see today.
So, yes, today’s chickens are bigger and grow faster than their ancestors.
However, through this highly technical and closely monitored traditional breeding process, they also ensure today’s birds are stronger and healthier than ever before.
