Butterball!!! It sure ain't turkey!

"Today's typical supermarket turkey is twice the weight it was thirty-five years ago, and most of that increase is in breast, which now swells out to near basketball size... for a while, it looked like the clever breeders had bred themselves right out of business. To deal with this avian sexual dysfunction (from the breast being too big), the turkey technicians first tried to devise a kind of kinky mechanical solution: They built little saddles to strap on the females so the toms could...
This did not work.
Then a couple of California pultry profs perfected the precise practice of artificial turkey insemination...
Ninety percent of the half-billion turkeys sold in the world each year are derived from only three breeding flocks that are maintained on secretive, highly guarded farms surrounded by chain-link fences. Owning these three flocks are Merck & Co., Bookder PLC, and British Petroleum.
All three flocks are of the white bred, assuring such dominant commercial growers as ConAgra Inc. (owner of Butterball) that each will develop those pumped-up breasts. But such genetic uniformity has its ugly side. Not only can these hapless birds not mate, they are also bred to be so heavy and are so disfigured that they can barely walk more than a few feet... To create "a whiter white meat," iron is eliminated from the diet because it imparts a healthy reddishness to turkey flesh and, well, this is not wha the marketing department ordered.