>The morons who propose things like this obviously know nothing about chickens. No chicken has a thought in its head worth considering. <
Have you ever been around a live chicken? They do have individual personalities and interact with humans far more than will a caged finch if they’re handled and socialized. If they don’t think, how come they’ll run to a human and beg for food. If they don’t think, why will they hop up on a human lap or shoulder? Why will they get excited when they see a human they know (and like)?
And no I’m not suggesting we stop eating them, even though they react a heck of a lot more strongly to humans than do finches or canaries.
We kept chickens when I was a child. From my observations chickens are some of the dumbest creatures on earth, and most of the reactions you observe tend to be ones common in animals that have learned the appearance of a human= getting fed.
I’m with you on this. And as I just posted above, science is starting to catch on to the intelligence of chickens (and lots of other birds):
http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/intelligence/