A regular-sized chicken has at least 10,000 feathers. With Americans eating 8 billion chickens annually, the feather supply is endless. Unlike geese, chickens don’t produce the type of down needed to ...

Every year, we kill more than 50 billion chickens for food, and, as global appetite for white meat increases, that number is only likely to grow. By 2020, chicken is set to overtake beef, pork, and ...

A researcher in Thailand is working to transform the protein found in chicken feathers into some kind of edible food. His work was inspired by the fact that chicken feathers are almost always thrown ...