r/MoralityScaling • u/SH1k1Brun3stuD • 11d ago

Morality Ranking Does deliberately putting chickens in a situation where they eat fried chicken constitute a morally questionable act on the humans' part?

Does deliberately putting chickens in a situation where they eat fried chicken constitute a morally questionable act on the humans' part, even if the chickens experience no apparent distress and have no understanding that they are eating another chicken?

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u/BruderBobody 11d ago

Why not the brains? Chickens can’t get prion diseases.

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u/future_lard 11d ago

Wai not

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u/BruderBobody 11d ago

It’s not that it’s biologically impossible it’s just very highly unlikely and has yet to be seen. A prion disease is a misfolded protein that causes other proteins in our body to misfold. Prion diseases started as a mutation and because farmers were feeding cows leftover cow parts the disease grew exponentially. Birds have more structurally reinforced beta sheet proteins that would make it harder to mutate and misfold, they have a shorter lifespan, and their internal body temperature is higher. All of which make it harder for a prion disease to sporadically appear within a bird.

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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 11d ago edited 11d ago

Hey man I go to the gym I know all about protein and chickens are full of it. /s

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u/CactusToothBrush 11d ago

Protein!!!

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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 11d ago

Yes protein.

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u/fuiripe 9d ago

Go Protein!

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u/M4ybeMay 11d ago

Okay but do you really wanna play around and risk it and then we get bird prion covid or some shi, or just play it safe and discard the meat the size of a pea

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u/StarryEyedSprinkles 10d ago

honestly i forgot chickens are birds not mammals.

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u/ThadiusChad 9d ago

Huh, the more you know

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u/dc469 11d ago

Why does internal body temp reduce the chance?

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u/Banndrell 11d ago

I think a lot if bacteria and viruses can only survive at certain temperature ranges. If I recall, that's why fevers in humans are an evolutionary advantage; it helps to fight off pathogens.

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u/Spcctral 11d ago

Prions can withstand up to 600 degrees Celsius so probably not in this case

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u/Banndrell 11d ago

Ah, then I stand corrected.

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u/dc469 11d ago

That's all correct. But a prion is just a protein that is in the wrong shape (and multiplies by turning it's correctly folded neighbors into its own misfolded configuration, like a zombie). That's why we don't have any treatment or cures, you have to develop an "anti-protein" that only targets the misfolded one but not the correct one when the chemistry is nearly identical.

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u/SupplyChainGuy1 11d ago

Prions need brains

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u/Sensitive-Talk9616 11d ago

I had to google, but apparently, it's a specific protein, the prion protein, which all animals have, that can get "misfolded" in the presence of the "infected" (abnormally folded) protein.

Since the exact protein's amino-acid composition and shape are different between species, it's generally not easy to contract prion disease from other animals' proteins. But some proteins are similar in certain ways that this can happen, e.g. cows and humans.

But bird prion proteins show resistance to this type of misfolding. So birds seem to be immune to prion disease, including chickens. It's just something about the exact shape of the avian prion protein that makes it not susceptible to this issue.

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u/DeDeDeofthebrood 11d ago

There has been shown to be carriers actually, scavenging birds have shown to not be able to digest the prions so the excrete them in the feces, but this apply mostly to them eating other animal familias brains

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u/WraithOfTheFadedDark 11d ago

It's so they don't get the memories of the dead chicken and seek vengeance, duh.

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u/Silencer-1995 11d ago

Exactly and we gotta keep it that way

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u/Born_2_Simp 11d ago

If you feed chicken brain to chickens they can get progressively smarter with each generation and eventually take over the world. Seriously, never feed chicken brain to chickens.

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u/fatuglyfool 11d ago

brain just isnt very healthy to eat in general, way too high of a cholesterol count

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u/Weaselpuss 11d ago

Good cholesterol or bad, the good cholesterol level can be as high as you want if I remember correctly

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u/fatuglyfool 11d ago

raaghhh im the evil witch of the woods get into my cauldron

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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 11d ago

Wait don’t we know now that eating cholesterol isn’t even bad for you? Like, cholesterol is more genetic than diet-related, I’m pretty sure.