prairiechickin prairiechickin:
This is interesting in several ways. CBC, a reputable public broadcaster, does a piece on fast-food chicken, does the DNA, and releases results.
They fucked up. DNA tests don't really apply to a percentage of DNA, and they used a lab not used to doing food science who would have known that. DNA tests won't show a proportion of one type of DNA over another, so saying the chicken at Subway is percentage X Soy and a percentage Y Chicken is outright wrong. If they hadn't used a wildlife research lab to run these tests, they would have been told not to use them in that story context.
They didn't fact check and follow proper guidelines, and they will pay for it.