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Australian chicken meat industry fighting to dispel pervasive hormone myth

From a hatched egg to the table in just six weeks, today's meat chickens grow much faster and bigger than the birds that were eaten in our grandparents' youth — but it's not because of added hormones.

The Australian Chicken Meat Foundation (ACMF) has been battling to convince people that selective breeding, improved nutrition and animal husbandry are behind the change.

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