number two -- the birds used by KFC are "so pumped up full of steroids, growth enhancements, and other chemicals, that the end result is no longer truly the meat of a 'chicken. Rumor number three -- KFC genetically engineers mutant birds with 4 or more legs (drumsticks) apiece, thus increasing profitability. All of these urban legends have two main themes in common: alteration of the animals by chemical or genetic means and the prohibition from calling the resulting creatures "chickens." Legends KFC in particular are nothing new, as evidenced by the infamous "Kentucky Fried Rat" story, which has made the rounds for decades. The popularity of such rumors is attributable to the public's love of fast food restaurants and its distrust of large corporations in general. When I first singled out my topic, the only reason why I chose How should genetically engineered food be regulated was because I thought the KFC rumors were true and I thought that if KFC was going to sell their chicken then they should at least let the consumers know that it was not real chicken. I thought these people must be brilliant to have thought of something as scholarly as making something exactly the way you want it, increase production while decreasing the unwanted. While surfing the web, looking up articles on GE foods in magazines, or watching the news to see if they had any vital information for my paper, I come to find out the dangers of GE foods are tremendous there are many health and environmental risks that come into play. Although people cannot even tell the difference, I feel as though if you are going to put a product on the shelf that causes some kind of health risk to the consumer in the future, it should be labeled for the consumer to make their own moral judgment on if they want to purchase it or not. I honestly didnt care in the beginning if something I was eating was genetically engineered or not. My mentality of thinking was that if it tastes lik...
