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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 12 months ago
There is no difference between the sentiment of this American and the Asian dog-eater who has a pet dog: “I eat chicken all the time, so I am not morally opposed to killing a chicken, but I couldn’t kill my own pet, so I took her back to the vet. After he injected her with the fatal dose of pentobarbital, I went out into the waiting room and sobbed.” The human psyche has a powerful ability to spare us the discomfort of seeing our often shocking hypocrisies.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/the-it-bird?mbid=nl_Sunday%20Longreads%20(45)%20remainder&CNDID=42403058&spMailingID=9178710&spUserID=MTM1NzQzODUxOTY5S0&spJobID=960761182&spReportId=OTYwNzYxMTgyS0The Rise of the It BirdA history of the back-yard chicken.