I'm not saying we can trust them. I'm saying they're smart enough to suffer.
Most folks think chickens are witless & non-sentient, but research shows they're surprisingly good at object permanence, transitive inference, self-control, numerosity, communication, deception, time perception, etc. Not much dumber than cows, TBH. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-016-1064-4 …pic.twitter.com/dz9KiTtjoY
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Interesting! As Bentham said, though, when it comes to the ethical treatment of chickens, "The question is not, are they good at object permanence, transitive inference, etc.?, but, can they suffer?"
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I worked on a chicken farm/factory for a while. No cages pretty much free range. I didn't see any issues. But I come from a small place, no big factory farms here that I know of.
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What is an animal - otoh - that is much dumber that we think? (Please don't say humans, I'm serious
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It's gotta be dogs, right? (Not because they're dumb, but because we pretty much think they're human...)
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A certain amount of intelligence is required for an animal product to qualify for deep frying
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As far as I can tell this is written by the head of an animal advocacy group for a not particularly relevant animal cognition journal. I’m fine believing that chickens are smarter than people give them credit for - still place them way lower than cows on the sentience pole tho
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Turkeys, on the other hand, you just gotta see to believe
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