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What If... Chicken Conquers the World?

Could test tube or laboratory-reared chicken ever
replace meat from birds? And how to vaccinate a chick before it hatches.

The second programme begins in Senegal where Emmett hears about the aspirational appetite for chicken. She also visits the development kitchen of a global poultry meat company for a taste of the chicken menu of the future, and witnesses the factory-scale kitchens in Northern Ireland, where a workforce of thousands kill and process 200 million birds a year. Emmett questions whether test tube or laboratory reared chicken could ever replace meat from birds.

In Pakistan and India where there is consumer resistance to 'industrial' chicken, Emmett hears from those who hope that smaller scale producers, and the breeds they keep, will survive. She speaks to a UK scientist, at the forefront of building immunity in chickens to diseases that affect them and humans, explains how to vaccinate a chick before it hatches.

(Image: Chickens Credit: Getty Images)

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25 minutes

Last on

Mon 4 Feb 2013 02:05GMT

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  • Sat 2 Feb 2013 16:05GMT
  • Sun 3 Feb 2013 14:05GMT
  • Sun 3 Feb 2013 20:05GMT
  • Mon 4 Feb 2013 02:05GMT

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