To aid our exploration of genetics, students recently visited the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm in Detroit to learn more about The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. This project originally began in 1999 in Belgium by artist Koen Vanmechelen. Attempting to make a statement on the importance of global diversity and national identity, Koen took the national chicken of various countries around the globe and began cross-breeding them. With each successive generation, he created a cosmopolitan chicken with global genes, and found that the more diverse their genetics were, the more resilient and healthy the chicken was. Students were able to see and hold the newest breed of this project. You can read more in-depth about the project here.
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