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Well, the decision isn't between having feral chickens vs. caging them. Domesticated chickens are bred into existence. We could just stop doing that if we had
by hombre_fatal 3y ago
Well, the decision isn't between having feral chickens vs. caging them.
Domesticated chickens are bred into existence. We could just stop doing that if we had ethical problems with it. The consideration doesn't hinge on whether there exists some wild variant of the animal we're breeding.
- ceejayoz 3y agoMy note about feral chickens was to contest the stated idea upthread that the species would die out if we stopped intentionally breeding them.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoTrue, my comment was really for them: What's wrong with stopping the breeding of a species, especially one we bred to exploit.