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Breed chickens for simpler brains and insensitivity to pain so
that industrial chicken farming has no turpitude.
Mike the headless chicken
http://www.miketheh...icken.org/index.php
It IS possible for chickens to be stupider and still survive. [Vernon, May 05 2010]
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One could argue that this is already baked with
domestication. |
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One could further argue that chickens could not be stupider and still be capable of maintaining homeostasis. |
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They use turpitude?! Jeez, no wonder those factory-farmed
chickens taste lousy. |
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If there is turpitude there must be a moral. What's the moral? |
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//What is a turpitude?// Aside from it's conventional meaning which describes a vile or base character or a depraved act, it is also a *near* anagram to "stupitude"...which is sort of fitting with the theme of this idea. |
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Wow, this is an ethical can of worms. Are rights proportional to intelligence? How do you prove that animals feel pain? How do you prove that other people feel pain come to that? All these questions and more are still awaiting answers. |
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// Are rights proportional to intelligence? // |
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No. For example, the welsh are allowed to vote in elections. |
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// How do you prove that animals feel pain? // |
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Through an extensive but ultimately inconclusive series of pointlessly cruel experiments under controlled conditions. We nominate cats as the subjects. |
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// How do you prove that other people feel pain come to that? // |
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As above, but using the welsh. |
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// All these questions and more are still awaiting answers. // |
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We know. And now if you'll excuse us, it's back to the research lab. The smell of burnt cat fur should have cleared a bit by now. |
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[8th] yn ceisio achos blina |
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//For example, the welsh are allowed to vote in
ellections.//
Many of them can actually spell
'elections'. |
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Yes, but they spell it "yllctyns" due to the ongoing vowel shortage. |
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+ for the ensuing (ensooing? ok spellcheck resolved that) discussion. |
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Sorry, but I like the taste of intelligence. |
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A side of dolphin meat for you then? |
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Mmmm.... bandersnatch brains. |
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Stepping in as a stand-in [nineteenthly] on the issue of turpitude, I'd like to take Ian's point further and suggest that in addition to being smarter, they should also be equipped with pointy teeth, nasty claws and to stand around 6 or 7 feet tall. These raptorous beasts can then be released into the suburbs, both providing a nutritious, turpitude-free meal for those skilled and athletic enough to catch one, as well as providing an important motivator for excercise. In addition, social problems such as the housing shortage, over-population and increasing pension costs could be alleviated as the weak and helpless are consumed by the ravenous angry chicken-beasts. |
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Now that, [zen tom], would have earned a [+]. |
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Not really all that different to meat from cell
cultures, end product is meat & has less intelligence
b4 it become meat than current pre-meat meat production
units, see? the same thing, so I guess all those downvotes
must be
from people who
actually 'want' meat to suffer before
it becomes meat & they'll downvote ideas for lab grown
meat as well for the same reasons. |
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It makes me feel all warm & gooey inside knowing I'm not
the
only complete bastard out there. |
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Some breeds of battery hen are already down to 2.4g brains
[Voice]. |
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I'm not really sure how much further we can go
b4 we impact their ability to function well enough to
feed themselves from the pellet trough, & now I want to find
out, lets do it! |
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If severe complexity is needed to become an interstellar species then dumber chickens is a step in the wrong direction. |
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Only if we want to send them as our proxies. |
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I'm not against it, I only fishboned because I'm more for
cellular agriculture- do away intelligence altogether and still
have your chicken sandwich. |
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