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    Wings for Growth

    Nov 26, 2020 4 minutes
    By Zhang Shasha & Li Nan

    At He Xiaofei’s chicken farm, each bird wears a contraption reminiscent of the step-tracking device worn by fitness conscious people. These electronic trackers tied to the feet of the chicken record the number of steps they take. Buyers could scan the QR codes attached to the chickens to see how many steps they had walked.

    At least 1 million steps have to be taken before they are put on the food chain because as He, manager of the farm in Wuyi, a county in Hebei Province in north China, explained to

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