Avian influenza, bird flu, causes the unnecessary deaths of millions of chickens each year, preventing them from instead being killed for my dinner.
Luckily, science is on the case, though irrational left-wing anti-science types won't like the solution; breeding chickens resistant to it.
Obviously the meat and eggs from these chickens cannot in any conceivable way be different from any other egg but the same mentality that leads people to believe the world will end because of a Mayan calendar can allow people to believe these eggs can be different, so look for the usual protests.
The super chicken was created by researchers from Cambridge and Edinburgh.
Citation: Jon Lyall, Richard M. Irvine, Adrian Sherman, Trevelyan J. McKinley, Alejandro Núñez, Auriol Purdie, Linzy Outtrim, Ian H. Brown, Genevieve Rolleston-Smith, Helen Sang, and Laurence Tiley, 'Suppression of Avian Influenza Transmission in Genetically Modified Chickens', Science 14 January 2011: 223-226 DOI: 10.1126/science.1198020
