The continuation of this style of "improvement" of livestock brought us the meat chicken that quickly grows to a point where its legs won't support it. It's in

The continuation of this style of "improvement" of livestock brought us the meat chicken that quickly grows to a point where its legs won't support it. It's inhumane to keep them around for too long past slaughtering age (8-10 weeks) as they just suffer. You see people trying to "rescue" them in the backyard chicken groups and there just isn't a way to give them an acceptable quality of life.