The point of eating the chickens in a historical context is that if you don’t they still die anyways.
Ok fascinating
I’m talking about today, and so was the comment I replied to before they diverted into a historical argument
Using history to defend a practice that may no longer be necessary is facile, sorry
The comment you were replying to was about how in a future sustainable society it would still make sense to have chickens for the same reason they were useful historically.
I am pointing out that these arguments:
we shouldn’t eat pork because pigs are as intelligent and emotional as three year old humans.
if you cut the head of a chicken off at the brain stem it can survive more or less indefinably. It’s basically a giant bug and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with eating it.
Insisting that human nutrition should be de-prioritized in favor of the lives of animals that roughly have the intelligence of five Beatles is essentially eco-fascist.
are unrelated to the historical argument and using the former to bolster the latter is incoherent. Okay, if raising chickens is an important component of a whole food system then great, like I said eat the eggs, you still haven’t connected that with the practice of eating meat
But chickens are not bugs and saying hey maybe we don’t need to eat them isn’t eco fascist, chickens form attachments, fear for their lives, enjoy being petted and held by humans. Bugs don’t care for any of that shit except for staying alive.
I think I’ve made my point clear so I’m done here, peace✌️
The comment they were replying to didn’t present any history at all. They were just telling a story to retroactively justify raising, killing, and eating chickens.
And as parent said, the fact that something was done previously is not a good justification for doing it now. In fact, it’s the base of conservatism and then reactionary thought. There need to be other, good reasons.
