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If chickens breathe in car fumes before they’re slaughtered, their meat might turn pinker than normal because chemicals in the exhaust mix with the meat’s natural pigments.
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Effect of automobile exhaust fume inhalation by poultry immediately prior to slaughter on color of meat.
Cross-Sectional Study
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1969 MarThe study gave chickens fumes from car exhaust right before killing them and found their meat turned pinker, just like the claim said it would, because the fumes changed the color of the meat’s natural proteins.
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