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CHICKEN
TALK
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Why
Did The Chicken
Cross The Road?
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| Aristotle: To actualize
its potential. |
| Buddha: If you ask
this question, you deny your own chicken-nature. |
| Plato: For the greater
good. |
| Karl Marx: It was
a historical inevitability. |
| Machiavelli: So that
its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the
daring
and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom
among
them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue?
In
such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. |
Noam Chomsky:
The chicken
didn't exactly
cross the road. As of 1994, something like 99.8% of all US chickens
reaching
maturity that year had spent 82% of their lives in confinement.
The living
conditions in
most chicken coops break every international law ever written, and
some,
particularly the ones for chickens bound for slaughter, border on
inhumane.
My point is,
they had no
chance to cross the road (unless you count the ride to the
supermarket).
Even if one or
two have
crossed roads for whatever reason, most never get a chance. Of course,
this is not what we are told. Instead, we see chickens happily dancing
around on Sesame Street and Foster Farms commercials where chickens are
not only crossing roads, but driving trucks (incidentally, Foster Farms
is owned by the same people who own the Foster Freeze chain, a
subsidiary
of the dairy industry). Anyway, ...
(Chomsky
continues for 32
pages. For the full text of his answer, contact Odonian Press). |
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