Having requirements for uniformity in our personal lives transfer to the want for uniformity in basic life of the chicken (genotype, breed, feed, production process) (Barbato, 1999 p. 32). Galusky suggests that we have not only made uniform the chicken body, but too the interactions of humans who still produce, haul, and process chickens (Galusky, […]
From Dinosaur to primitive bird to… supermarket discount? Although chickens thrive as a species – in the sense that billions of them roam the earth, accounting for about 80% of the global population of domestic animals (Barbato, 1999) – what do the ways that we treat our stock of uniform chicken meat production today say about the […]
Entertaining the age-old question, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” was a necessary side note. Now, it’s time to shake a tail feather and get to the story we’ve all been waiting for: Long long ago, when chickens had teeth… 230 Million years ago, the theropods had begun their rise in two categories […]