tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162552.post-1135891723869216652005-12-29T10:14:00.000-10:002005-12-29T11:28:43.916-10:00Monday was a holiday, so I was home, and I had the TV on in the background while I was reading. Family Feud came on.<br /><br />The category was: Things A Chicken Does. 4 answers, total, on the board.<br /><br />10 adults given 9 tries could not come up with all 4 answers. (Lay an egg, cluck, scratch, peck.)<br /><br />It is no wonder that people eat factory-farmed eggs--produced by thousands of debeaked chickens kept in the dark in 1-foot square cages in warehouses--when they have become so removed from non-human society that they can't name 4 things done naturally by the birds who produce their daily breakfast food. (I could think of 15 more, just off the top of my head: crow [at least roosters], inspect the ground for insects, regard tall humans warily, brood, roost, fight, smell, shit, preen, molt, display affection, mate, flock, run around, drink water with decorous naivete.)<br /><br />I'm not building an ark, but signs are fowl for humanity when it has become that detached from nature.frankysbridenoreply@blogger.com