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Would chickens really know tho?
Is that the metric then? If you don't know you're going to be killed, it's ok to kill you?
If a life form alien to me was going to suddenly, randomly (from my perspective) kill me to use me as food, I don't think I would necessarily mind because I had no idea it was going to happen. If I lived my entire life in fear that I could be killed at any moment, I'd be less ok with it.
I guess what I was going for was that trying to compare a chicken's understanding of mortality to our own isn't a compelling argument to me. I think the simple fact that they're alive and deserve to be treated with dignity is a better argument.
I don't know what the metric is, but chickens wouldn't exist without us eating them. So from a species standpoint they need us to keep eating them. From a humane standpoint it's probably cruel to keep the species alive.
Agreed. The chicken's closest natural ancestor, the red jungle fowl, would continue to live in the wild. Unlike modern chickens, they only lay around once a month (as opposed to upwards of once a day), and they aren't bred to be excessively large to the point that many can't even walk properly. It would definitely be more humane to let these human made species go extinct.