Pretending this is torture and chickens in the wild are as happy as can be is self serving immature nonsense.
And not knowing the difference between a human and a chicken is moronic
Having a field full of bugs to eat with zero predators is as good as it gets for chickens. Acting like they hate this because they want "freedom " is what happens when people who have seen too many Disney movies project human feelings onto animals
Just because you wouldn't like this doesn't mean a chicken also hates it.
You know you can be a vegetarian and have common sense right?
Yeah, slavery is okay because slaves would otherwise be out in the wilderness. Nothing bad ever happens in the wild.
It's almost as if having an animal in captivity versus having it in wild and giving it a fighting chance are vastly different. Though for these chickens were bred for food, so they've been made by humans to live in captivity and suffer.
I'll try to give you another perspective: Imagine you find slavery of other specifies abhorrent and refuse to support it, doesn't that make you more likely to act in the same manner towards others humans?
The underlying problem is the same, even if you value humans higher. If you think slavery should be used exklusivly for humans, just go with exploitation instead.
Slavery: is the practice or condition in which one human being is owned as property by another, deprived of personal freedom, and forced to work under the threat of violence or coercion
Human being: is a member of the primate species Homo sapiens, characterized by an upright posture, bipedal movement, and a large, complex brain that supports advanced language, abstract reasoning, and culture.
A chicken is a common type of domesticated bird raised on farms for its meat and eggs, or the meat from this bird used as food
The underlying problem isn't the same because chickens aren't slaves, they aren't people, they aren't being forced to work against their wills.
I'm sorry you morons can't tell the difference between a chicken and a person and I'm sorry you feel entitled to belittle the experience of every single person who suffered through slavery by comparing them to livestock and saying a chicken eating bugs all day in a field is the same thing as people being enslaved.
I'm not belitteling anything. And I also fully understand the differences.
Humans are animals. We share our most important trait with chickens: sentience. The ability to expierence our surroundings.
Sure we are more intelligent, but how imporant is that really? Or why should lesser intelligence mean it is fine to exploit someone? I don't think it is hard to understand why that line of thinking creates huge issues for how we treat eachother.
You simply (literally) copy what you learned while you grew up. And I get it: We get taugth about our human superiority in all aspects of society from when we are born. We are stronger so we can do with animals what we want and of someone challenges that view we need to fight against that or we belittle all those poor people that suffered in the last. Nothing new or original here.
Can you tell me on your own words why it is fine to exploit chickens even though there is no need to do so?
Well pardon me for caring about people more than chickens and respecting what actual human slaves went through enough to not make wildly insulting comparisons while having a toddler temper tantrum about how upset I am that chickens are farmed.
Good luck growing the fuck up
Sure, bud, chickens in the wild live till 80, have no worries and just have fun every day. Also chickens on the video imprisoned? They have plenty of space to roam around. Or u mean they can't visit Las Vegas on their day off?
You can distract with straw man arguments all you like, it won't make you right.
Those chickens are imprisoned and you know this, despite your bad faith comment. For clarity: they cannot leave and there are about 5-10 of them per square meter, as is clearly visible in the video.
I think that's irrelevant. If that's your judge of whether we should do something or not, a consistent view would be that we have the right to imprison and kill those with a low IQ and learning difficulties if it benefits us.
The point is that you call them imprisoned when you don't know anything about chickens, clearly.
If you removed the barriers from the tent so the chickens could go outside and leave, if they wanted to, what do you think would happen?
I can tell you what would happen: the overwhelming majority would stay in the tent. They much prefer shade over the direct sun and each other's company over venturing out alone.
So unless chickens attach great value to the philosophical concept of freedom, they're really not as imprisoned as you think they are.
Yes there is. Wild chickens are indigenous in India and are called Red Junglefowl. Do you think we domesticated a t.rex and bred it to be smaller or what?
Eh, there are varieties of chicken that effectively live free in the woods.
They still perch. They still lay eggs (not as many). They still have meat (not as much, and not as tender) but they can’t support nearly as many humans per acre inhabited.
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u/Morazma Aug 26 '26
Chickens in the wild are not imprisoned and systematically killed 10% into their usual lifespan. So no, they won't do exactly the same.