The selective breeding of chickens in the last 50 years has led to the entire breed showing health issues that could make them useless as chickens.

Last spring I bought two female pot belly piglets. I put them in my animal pen with my goats & chickens and other assorted animals (6 gay roosters, a duck that has sex with a chicken, and two goats that like to hump the pigs). I also have a little Jack Russell Terrier I call the "Little Pig F#%*er". Full story and pictures of the cross breed.

Doom mongering has suddenly crept back into fashion. A new breed of Chicken Littles has emerged. But these aren't your run-of-the-mill street corner nut jobs warning that the end is nigh. Rather, these are serious thinkers with excellent credentials.

Artist Koen Vanmechelen's Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, aims for a hybridized breed of chicken that is not focused on notions of specific purity or nationality.

Pam educates Rostik regarding KFC's abuse of chickens: “KFC's suppliers breed chickens to grow so top-heavy that they suffer heart attacks, lung failures, broken legs, and other crippling diseases and injuries. At slaughter, their throats are cut open and they are scalded to death — often while they are still conscious.”

The Monster Rancher video game and anime franchise features monsters raised by monster breeders, who then fight in tournaments against other monster breeders.Each of these monsters are uniquely defined by a primary breed (such as Golem), which defines its basic form and abilities, and a sub-breed, which defines its color scheme, modifies appearance, and slightly alters some of its statistical capabilities. Breed is commonly specified as Primary/Sub because of the inconsistency of name and form for the generated monsters between the games. For example, Golem/Suezo indicates a monster with primary breed Golem, sub-breed Suezo, and manifests as a large humanoid figure with the bright yellow skin and single eye that are characteristic of the Suezo monster breed. Below is a list of many of the different species used in the franchise. Not all appear in every game, and many are culled for the sequels.Within the storyline of the games and anime, monsters were created through genetic engineering as designer pets, until a war broke out in which the monsters were modified into biological weapons which could have their physical forms stored on discs. Although the ensuing conflict destroyed much of the world's civilization and technology, later generations used the discs to recreate the monsters to be used as pets, beasts of burden, and created a sport in which they were used as competitive fighters.