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Is Chicken and Egg making our children infertile and impotent?
Jul 15 2008, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

Broiler chicken are engineered to be “meat birds” as distinct from “laying birds” Broiler eggs are engineered to be fully / partially infertile. Isn’t there an imminent possibility of the infertility of the meat and eggs affecting the person...

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