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Scoop.it!
What we've learned about chicken behavior in the last 15 years will surprise and delight many. It's time for us to rethink our assumptions about chickens! Via Garry Rogers 
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Scoop.it!
In my recent article “A Fox Is a Cow Is a Cat,” I touched upon how we reconcile our choice to treat some animals with respect, such as our own companion animals like dogs and cats, while we treat other animals with disdain and abuse, such as the pigs we eat and the cows we kill and skin for their leather. It came to generally positive reviews of recognizing that there’s something amiss about our moral cognitive dissonance towards other species. However, one dissenting comment, which was very common, approached the issue from a very different angle: Via Garry Rogers
Garry Rogers's curator insight,
June 21, 2014 12:43 AM
If wisdom ever overtakes our species, objective vision will require that we treat all animal species as our equals. |
GR: Here's an excellent review of chicken sociology and behavior. For instance, we've learned that chickens have intelligence similar to that of primates.