the sky is falling
Monday was a holiday, so I was home, and I had the TV on in the background while I was reading. Family Feud came on.
The category was: Things A Chicken Does. 4 answers, total, on the board.
10 adults given 9 tries could not come up with all 4 answers. (Lay an egg, cluck, scratch, peck.)
It is no wonder that people eat factory-farmed eggs--produced by thousands of debeaked chickens kept in the dark in 1-foot square cages in warehouses--when they have become so removed from non-human society that they can't name 4 things done naturally by the birds who produce their daily breakfast food. (I could think of 15 more, just off the top of my head: crow [at least roosters], inspect the ground for insects, regard tall humans warily, brood, roost, fight, smell, shit, preen, molt, display affection, mate, flock, run around, drink water with decorous naivete.)
I'm not building an ark, but signs are fowl for humanity when it has become that detached from nature.
The category was: Things A Chicken Does. 4 answers, total, on the board.
10 adults given 9 tries could not come up with all 4 answers. (Lay an egg, cluck, scratch, peck.)
It is no wonder that people eat factory-farmed eggs--produced by thousands of debeaked chickens kept in the dark in 1-foot square cages in warehouses--when they have become so removed from non-human society that they can't name 4 things done naturally by the birds who produce their daily breakfast food. (I could think of 15 more, just off the top of my head: crow [at least roosters], inspect the ground for insects, regard tall humans warily, brood, roost, fight, smell, shit, preen, molt, display affection, mate, flock, run around, drink water with decorous naivete.)
I'm not building an ark, but signs are fowl for humanity when it has become that detached from nature.
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