Maybe I shouldn’t ask. If I think about this, a drumstick may never taste the same again. Anyway, here goes:
” … [W]e’ve known for a while that chickens are very intelligent and feeling bird beings. And, so too, are many other birds. The excellent essays written for Psychology Today by bird experts John Marzluff and Tony Angell in their column called “Avian Einsteins” amply demonstrate this, and recently, I’ve written two essays about birds that also show just how smart, adaptive, and emotional they truly are (please see “Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence” and “Bird Minds: An Outstanding Book About Australian Natives“).”
(Read more here.) Well, we knew parrots are smart, didn’t we? After all, they can mimic all the foul words pouring out of our mouths, although you gotta wonder if they understand what it means. (Sometimes I suspect they do.) But chickens? Who would’ve thought chickens? All they do is cluck. (In case you didn’t know, the lifespan of a deli chicken is 42 days, or something like that.)
Eat turkeys. They’re so stupid they’ll waddle in front of cars trying to get run over. You’re doing them a favor by putting them out of their misery. (Never mind this video, or the video below; watch the real Margaret Thatcher tell a parrot joke here.) Or, you could be a vegan.