Chicken feather meal–a mix of processed chicken feathers, blood and innards–is one of the nastiest byproducts of the poultry processing industry. The 11 billion pounds of feather meal that pile up in ...

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 ...

For every vacuum-packed, shrink-wrapped pound of chicken in the supermarket, a handful of feathers has been left behind somewhere. Chicken feathers don't weigh much, but when you consider that the U.S ...