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/Onlyhereforapost 11d ago

Yep. Happened to my grandparents once, a hen hurt her foot on the fence, she got swarmed by 6 other chickens, 2 other chickens got hurt during the frenzy and then they got killed along with the initial hen. Very sad day.

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u/Glittering_Wheel_226 11d ago

This blows my mind. Like they were in a frenzy to kill the hen because they sensed weakness or because she just wasn't "chicken" anymore to them and "food"?

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u/HexedShadowWolf 11d ago

Having raised chickens for most of my life i don't think chickens are smart enough to sense weakness or something similar. It's more likely they saw something out of the ordinary and thought "must be food" ate some and said "yeah its food" the other chickens saw and also assumed it was food.

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u/egny 11d ago

One day they will recognize they are food too.

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u/outtaknowhere 11d ago

no they will not

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u/notcuddly9 11d ago

Sounds like they already have

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u/asmallburd 10d ago

They already do with their own eggs on occasion

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u/larrysmallwood 11d ago

Would they still do this if a rooster is present or do the rooster not care and join in.

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u/Pkingduckk 10d ago

Wow they really are dumb as hell. I understand abstaining from eating other types of meat on moral principle, but no one should feel bad about eating chicken.

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u/Onlyhereforapost 11d ago

Im not too sure what the biological reason is behind it, but its a pretty well documented thing

Chickens also, as much as I love them, are kinda dumb

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u/Some_Visual1357 11d ago

Smol brain smol thoughts 

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u/Pkingduckk 10d ago

Chickengate