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On population control... Are they generally considered safe to eat? That's the first thing I think of in this case...
The meat would probably be really tough. I'd think the only acceptable preparation would be braising or confit. They probably have a lot more parasites (worms) than you'd be used to as well.
Chickens can also swim
Hum, thinking about it, this is a great meme waiting to happen. All that you need is a warm Olympic swimming pool, to borrow some fatty velociclucktors and the cover of the night. Worldwide fame, here I go again...
I made the mistake of buying chickens as livestock. I fell in love with the day-old chicks the moment we got into the car to take them home. Plan was that 1/3 would become food, 1/3 would die of disease, and the remainder would lay eggs. Unfortunately I lost my taste for chicken. We lost 1/3 due to predators, not disease, despite building a $20,000 chicken run. I was depressed for months. And I have been through some…
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The meat would probably be really tough. I'd think the only acceptable preparation would be braising or confit. They probably have a lot more parasites (worms) than you'd be used to as well.
I stayed in Kauai in 2012 and the locals said they do not eat the chickens. They said the meat is very tough and doesn't taste very good. They also said the chickens are useful because they eat millipedes, which are everywhere. They claimed that the sting from being bitten by one of those millipedes is unbelievably painful, and feels like a gun shot. I'm not sure about the gun shot part, but everyone seemed pretty se…
Its Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraponera_clavata
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Why would any of that refute "a lot more would be vegetarian"?
Well, from a philosophical point of view, vegetarian movement is unfair for the plants Plants that are responsible of lots and lots of human well-being and as life beings deserve to be treated with a similar respect that we use with other organisms. Incidentally is also bad for human health Yes, it is. Those articles that claim that you can live on a strict vegetarian diet without any bad consequences for your health…
> ...casting nervous glances at a rooster slowly approaching me like a Weeping Angel. > Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They [the Weeping Angels] are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't turn away. And most of all, don't blink. I know this has nothing to do with the point of the article, but Weeping Angels are exactly the wrong analogy for something approaching slowly!
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One could argue that is natural adaptation. Modern chickens are likely going to be more successful at propagating their genes into the future.
I see the case for it, but what wouldn't be natural once you allow this? Gene editing? Why not? A consequence is that 'natural' will lose all meaning. If everything is natural, then nothing is, really.
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I see the case for it, but what wouldn't be natural once you allow this? Gene editing? Why not? A consequence is that 'natural' will lose all meaning. If everything is natural, then nothing is, really.
I fall under the idea that yes, everything is natural, we are not special no matter what secrets of the universe we uncover and wield . Even our robot descendants , if they ever come to be, are natural too. Just because we have the ability to acknowledge material selection does not mean we are except from it
It's like going "haha gotcha! tomatoes are fruit, not vegetables!", completely missing the difference between the use of the word in a culinary versus botanical context. It's not insightful or useful in any way, it's just equivocation.