When the chicken she was cooking for supper disintegrated into stringy spaghetti bits, a Texas woman was taken aback.

The mother posted a picture of the raw chicken she was washing on social media, explaining that pasta was not an option that evening. The chicken was falling apart in her hands.

In her now-viral Facebook post, she says, “I think it’s that fake meat,” which is encouraging people to adopt a vegan diet. To find out more about the stringy chicken, keep reading!

Alesia Cooper, an Irving, Texas resident, posted a troubling image of a chicken breast objecting to its prospective placement on a dinner plate on March 21.

The mother of two writes: “I been debating on posting this but since I had to see it so do yall.” The post, which also shows an image of chicken shredding into spaghetti-like strands, continues: “I was cooking my kids dinner a couple of weeks ago and was cleaning my meat like I normally do and when I went back to start cooking it turned into this (SIC).”

Cooper, who shares she purchased the chicken breast from the budget supermarket Aldi, adds: “lol I think it’s that fake meat but I’m not sure anyways…I ain’t made chicken off the bone since.”

Online users immediately went into the comments area with their thoughts on the subject; some suggested that the chicken was developed in a petri dish or 3D printed.

“That’s lab grown chicken, it’s a new way they make chicken because, of the last few years, with the bird flu and resource shortages, they didn’t have produce so last year they announced that they found a way to make chicken in a lab and that’s what’s in stores now.” one person counters.

Someone else writes, “GMO lab meat.”

A third decides it’s “fake i don’t buy it anymore.”

Another user offers a more logical explanation to the shredded chicken breast: “It’s not lab-grown meat or 3D printed meat. It comes from real chickens. The problem is when greedy chicken producers force-feed their chickens growth hormones so they grow way too fast.”

Bigger breasts

According to the Wall Street Journal, raising big-breasted chickens to grow faster is said to have produced “spaghetti meat” in addition to the hard, chewy meat known as “woody breast.”

Therefore, more meat may be produced per bird, increasing profit.

Professor of agriculture and food science at the University of Bologna in Italy, Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, tells the WSJ that “there is proof that these abnormalities are associated with fast-growing birds.”

Industry experts say eating “spaghetti meat” and “wooly breast” won’t harm you, despite their disturbing names.