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America's chicken got 4 times bigger since 1957, and researchers say it wasn't hormones

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (574+ words) At 56 days, the older birds averaged 2.0 pounds, compared with 9.3 pounds for the modern line. America's supermarket chicken has been remade over the past several decades into something far removed from the bird many families bought in earlier generations. Research shows…...