The point Jacy was contesting was about the happiness of free-range chickens whose eggs could feasibly be subsidized. He didn’t pull that quote out of thin air; he was responding to a specific proposal about commercially-raised chickens. Pet chickens are not in any way relevant to the question of whether commercially-raised “free-range” chickens live neutral, positive, or negative lives.
I hope this was an oversight rather than a purposeful red herring.
A reasonable supposition, but it’s easy to find less gruesome videos of large-scale chicken farming. For example, this video of reasonably happy looking commercially farmed chickens was trivial to find on google. So even if we interpret his argument in that way he still can’t have looked very hard.
The point Jacy was contesting was about the happiness of free-range chickens whose eggs could feasibly be subsidized. He didn’t pull that quote out of thin air; he was responding to a specific proposal about commercially-raised chickens. Pet chickens are not in any way relevant to the question of whether commercially-raised “free-range” chickens live neutral, positive, or negative lives.
I hope this was an oversight rather than a purposeful red herring.
A reasonable supposition, but it’s easy to find less gruesome videos of large-scale chicken farming. For example, this video of reasonably happy looking commercially farmed chickens was trivial to find on google. So even if we interpret his argument in that way he still can’t have looked very hard.