Rebirthing the chicken … (09/19/14)
I have had quite a few of my friends tell me that it’s OK for them to eat chickens because chickens are too stupid to comprehend their own lives and therefore do not suffer when they are murdered … As it turns out, the latest science is now clearly showing what anyone who has spent any significant time around chickens already knows — that it is not the average chicken, but rather this ridiculously outdated & patently primitive belief, that is downright stupid.
Get smart … Go vegan.
“Few people think of the chicken as intelligent … In recent years, though, scientists have learned that this bird … possesses communication skills on par with those of some primates and that it uses sophisticated signals to convey its intentions. When making decisions, the chicken takes into account its own prior experience and knowledge surrounding the situation. It can also solve complex problems and empathizes with individuals that are in danger.” ~ Scientific American (February 2014)
Of course, intelligence is not the issue … after all, it is considered immoral and even illegal in all modern societies to kill humans & in most cultures it is also immoral & even illegal to torture dogs or cats or horses — and this is true no matter how stupid those humans or dogs or cats or horses might be. AND YET a rudimentary level of intelligence does tend to indicate sentience — and therefore the ability to suffer; a basic level of self-awareness that is without a doubt possessed by chickens.
As such, if chickens are “dumb enough to kill”, then so are most human toddlers … Think about it.
And despite this innate beauty, keen curiosity and surprising cleverness, chickens are still the most maltreated & disrespected of all farmed animals …
Frankly, your basic decency & fundamental integrity means that it really doesn’t matter how good you think chickens taste … Confining them is still slavery; killing them is still murder & eating them is still immoral.
“Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when yo know better, do better.” ~ Maya Angelou
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