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What is the most common bird in the world?

Without a doubt, we are talking about an ordinary domestic chicken.

Today, the total number of chickens in the world is approximately 52 billion - about nine for every inhabitant of the Earth. Seventy-five percent will eventually end up on our table, but for almost 3000 years they have been mainly grown for eggs. Before the Romans came to Britain, it never occurred to anyone to eat the bird itself.

The ancestor of all domestic chickens and roosters is considered to be a Thai pheasant called the "red jungle hen" (G'alius gallus gallus). Its closest modern relative is the fighting cock.

Mass production of chickens and eggs began in 1800. In those days, chicken meat was a by-product of egg production. The meat of only those hens that were already too old to give eggs was used for food and for sale. In 1963, chicken meat was still considered a luxury. It wasn't until the 1970s that it became available to most of us and gained wide popularity. Today, chicken meat makes up almost half of all meat products eaten by the British.

As a result of selective breeding and hormone treatment, forty days is now enough to grow a chicken to maturity, which is twice as fast as if the process had run its course, as nature intended.

Ninety-eight percent of the world's chickens - including organic ones - are descendants of breeds bred by three American companies. So, half of all "broilers" (that is, meat chickens) in the world are "Cobb-500", bred in the 1970s by the Cobb Breeding Co..

Until 1500, there were no chickens in any of the Americas at all. They were brought by the Spaniards.

More than a third of the UK's chickens are produced by the Scottish Grampian Country Foods Group. It supplies chicken to every major supermarket chain and is one of the biggest funders of the British Conservative Party. Through eight huge hatchery centers, one of which is located just in Thailand, up to 3,8 million chickens pass weekly. The motto of the company: "Traditionally good quality".

Most chickens sold in today's stores are female. Males fattened for meat are castrated roosters, or capons. Today, castration occurs chemically - with the help of hormones that cause testicular atrophy.

The industry term for a chicken foot is "leg". Most American "legs" are exported to China, despite the fact that the country has three billion of its own chickens.

Danish hens cackle "gok-gok"; German - "hook-hook"; Thai - "guk-guk"; Dutch - "tok-tok"; Finnish and Hungarian - "cat-cat". Only French chickens condescendingly allow themselves the aristocratic "kut-kut-kudah."

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Why does dry sugar never mold?

Molds (fluffy or velvety deposits on food products that cause spoilage) are formed by special microorganisms - sporulation of the so-called mold fungi. Mushroom threads penetrate the surface layer of the product and, releasing the appropriate enzymes, destroy it.

Under normal conditions, sugar has a very low water content (about 0,02 percent) and at the same time is able to absorb external moisture very quickly. Therefore, it dehydrates (and thereby kills) the microorganisms that have fallen on its surface faster than they have time to penetrate into it and form mold.

The low moisture content of sugar also prevents chemical changes that can cause it to spoil. If the sugar is moistened (or exposed to high humidity for a long time), it will mold and spoil very soon.

Thus, in order to ensure the possibility of long-term (almost indefinitely long) storage of sugar, you should simply keep it in an airtight (tightly closed) container and not expose it to sudden temperature changes.

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