Jinling Evening News reported, "I saw an article on the Internet. According to the article, KFC's chicken has 5 wings and 4 legs. Is this true?"

Yesterday, Jinling Evening News received a call from Xiao Wang, a senior student at a university in Nanjing. On the other end of the phone, Xiao Wang was dubious about this article and hoped that the reporter would investigate clearly.

Will there be a monster chicken with "5 wings and 4 legs"? The reporter was puzzled and immediately conducted an investigation.

Rumor: Chicken has 5 wings

Xiao Wang saw the article in the "e Food" section of Xici Hutong. According to Xiao Wang's story, the reporter quickly found this article, which was distributed on the "e Food" section of Xici Hutong at 7:28 on November 8, titled "KFC's chicken has 5 wings and 4 legs? Is this true?" post. As of 5:00 pm yesterday, the post had ***1,342 views, and ***55 people had commented in response to this topic. It can be seen from this that this article attracted the attention of many people and attracted a lot of attention. The reporter browsed the post, which said: "The father of a friend of mine is a senior leader of the Bank of China in a certain city, and he has some cooperative relations with KFC in the United States. An exchange of visits between senior leaders My friend's father had the honor to visit the KFC chicken factory. It is a place that is strictly confidential and no one can enter casually... He said that each chicken has tubes inserted into it. The age of chickens is two weeks. Friends, you already know what the tube injects into them, right? It’s hormones! Each chicken has no hair on its body at all, and it looks like it has been disemboweled and removed as we saw. The chicken after the feathering is the same! Friends, you know that the chicken we eat in KFC has the most legs and wings. Almost all of them are legs and wings. Think about it, where do so many legs and wings come from? Where have all the parts gone? The classmate’s father said that he roughly counted 4-5 wings and 3-4 legs on each chicken..."

Netizens: Most of them are skeptical.

The reporter saw that most of the netizens who commented on the post adopted a dubious attitude.

A netizen named "+12591" said this: "Upstairs, chicken. I don’t say whether it has four or five wings or legs. It may be an exaggeration, but it is true that the chicken has no hair (and has tubes inserted), takes hormones, and severely treats animals. It was reported on CCTV earlier. I don’t know if you have watched it. I watched it several times last time I went abroad. I didn’t want to eat chicken after watching it. It was very sensational abroad.”

A reporter named “yuanjuanjuan”. "A netizen said: "KFC's chickens are definitely not from the United States, and the cost would be too high... As far as I know, domestic breeding is not like what the poster said. People and chickens should be put into the cage at the same time, and wait until half the time. They are raised together after a month to avoid the spread of diseases. During this period, the chickens are raised in a closed manner. The poster said that the chickens are right, because the meat is more tender. I am not sure whether there are hormones. ” < /p>

“a＿ha＿ha” netizen thinks so, a chicken has 5 wings and 4 legs? If you were the director of KFC and you had secrets that no one could know, would you still let others visit? Or let a foreigner visit?

Expert: It’s impossible with current technology

Does KFC’s chicken really have 5 wings and 4 legs? After the reporter discussed the doubts of Xiao Wang and netizens with his colleagues in the office, the colleagues also started talking about it. With everyone's doubts, the reporter interviewed relevant experts in genetically modified and food science.

Professor Hua Zichun from the School of Life Sciences of Nanjing University bluntly said that online posts without pictures or specific locations are really untrustworthy. "What practical significance does it have to change genetic traits to make chickens grow 4-5 wings and 3-4 legs?" Professor Hua said.

Professor Zeng Xiaoxiong from the School of Food Science and Technology of Nanjing Agricultural University also smiled and said that this was probably the imagination of the poster. If a chicken has 4-5 wings and 3-4 legs, the genetic characteristics of the chicken must be changed. This is not possible with current genetic technology. Genetically modified technology is often used to change certain traits of organisms, such as increasing plant resistance to drought, virus resistance, etc. So, a featherless chicken is possible.

KFC: Rumors have been around for a long time

The reporter also interviewed Mr. An, the spokesperson of KFC in Nanjing. Mr. An said that this kind of rumor about KFC has been around for a long time. It causes commotion on the Internet every time, but in fact, the raw materials used in the 1,500 KFC stores in China all come from more than 30 domestic breeding bases in China. These breeding bases have been approved by the state and have legal procedures.

Mr. An refuted that raising such a "three-headed and six-armed" chicken is such a high-tech thing and how much it costs. How can a company do such a loss-making business?