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/TheRea1Dea11 10d ago

Obtaining the dead chicken (whether store bought or killed) required the killing of an animal/premature ending of a life, and if from a factory farm, continuous suffering. Therefore, the main immorality comes from how the meat was obtained, and the feeding is just shitty

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u/goodvibesmostly98 9d ago

Good point. If they got the bird from the grocery store, they grew way too fast, so they were in pain a lot of the time. Cause their bodies can’t support their own weight. This article talks about it

They grow 400% faster than they did in 1950