<story><title>What is this colored fiber in my chicken?</title><url>http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/79674/what-is-this-colored-fiber-in-my-chicken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>This is just the tip of the iceberg in how animals are treated. Industrial meat production practically runs its margins on increasing the suffering of animals in a manner that narrowly avoids this kind of visible anomalies in the product.&lt;p&gt;As many others have noted in the past, slave labor and concentration camps operated on a similar industrial calculus of forcibly squeezing out value from living beings before putting them to death.&lt;p&gt;Waiting for &amp;quot;fake meat&amp;quot; to fix the problem is like saying: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t wait until we can grow zombies to pick cotton, then all the slaves can finally go free.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>ncr100</author><text>Fake meat cannot come soon enough - poor bird was encouraged to grow in an unhealthy manner resulting in dead tissue inside it while it was still alive. I wonder if it was painful for the bird having this tough dead tissue at the core of its breasts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eyas</author><text>Except as far as I understand it, there seems to be a significant utility to fake meat (and it is more of a distinct possibility than zombies):&lt;p&gt;For many, there are few ways of consuming a balanced diet without meat. Take low-FODMAP diets [1] for example, which are becoming very popular with people with IBS, a condition some ~15% of the U.S. population suffers from [2]. For many, coming up with enough sources of protein while satisfying their dietary restrictions is not easy without meat.&lt;p&gt;On an individual level, picking the &amp;quot;harder&amp;quot; way for its ethical advantages is definitely the right thing to do.&lt;p&gt;For the scientist working on fake meat, their work is probably essential here.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    [1]: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;FODMAP
    [2]: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Irritable_bowel_syndrome#Epidemiology&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>What is this colored fiber in my chicken?</title><url>http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/79674/what-is-this-colored-fiber-in-my-chicken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>This is just the tip of the iceberg in how animals are treated. Industrial meat production practically runs its margins on increasing the suffering of animals in a manner that narrowly avoids this kind of visible anomalies in the product.&lt;p&gt;As many others have noted in the past, slave labor and concentration camps operated on a similar industrial calculus of forcibly squeezing out value from living beings before putting them to death.&lt;p&gt;Waiting for &amp;quot;fake meat&amp;quot; to fix the problem is like saying: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t wait until we can grow zombies to pick cotton, then all the slaves can finally go free.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>ncr100</author><text>Fake meat cannot come soon enough - poor bird was encouraged to grow in an unhealthy manner resulting in dead tissue inside it while it was still alive. I wonder if it was painful for the bird having this tough dead tissue at the core of its breasts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SerLava</author><text>&amp;gt;Waiting for &amp;quot;fake meat&amp;quot; to fix the problem is like saying: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t wait until we can grow zombies to pick cotton, then all the slaves can finally go free.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s kind of like that... except that slaves were people - not chickens. Which certainly flavors the metaphor a bit.</text></comment>