Modern chicken is terrible -- too much meat, too little cartilage. Slashdot had a post titled "Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat'"

Modern chicken is terrible -- too much meat, too little cartilage. Slashdot had a post titled "Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat'" - https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13563208&cid=58263590 https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13563208&cid=58... Before the 1950's chicken was mostly bones and cartilage. Hens were used for eggs; when they stopped laying eggs they were used for soup.