• auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    They don’t naturally behave like anything, as they are artificial. Hens don’t lay eggs all the time. We’ve bred them too, at their peril.

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      24 hours ago

      They do naturally behave like something, because they have a nature, and a tendency to behave along certain lines - regardless of whether or not we’ve bred them to be that way.

      Hens can lay eggs for a good 13 years in some cases, and can live quite a bit beyond their egg-laying days as well, without peril.

      Their peril comes when I decide “I’m going to eat that chicken.” And, I kill the chicken in a lot nicer way, likely, than you or I will die, when we do.

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        24 hours ago

        Not sure what your point is, you’d rather be murdered than die naturally? It’s okay to breed individuals if you kill them quickly?

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          23 hours ago

          being killed for food by a species that is incomprehensibly more complex than I am, and is also relatively humane is really not too big of a deal in my opinion. Go aliens.