Category

Chicken

The chicken plays many roles in human life. It can be a commercial broiler and egglayer, a backyard pet, or an armed cockfight warrior. As many communities’ essential travel companion, the chicken can also serve as a tracer to track human settlements over the past 8000 or more years.

Interviews

Narrator: Bob FischerTitle: Five Dollar ChickenDuration: 00:04:27Date: January 14, 2025Industrial agriculture is successful in providing cheap, plentiful food - the five-dollar Costco chicken. But that product has side effects, including serious impacts on animal welfare and environmental pollution. However, Bob Fischer, a professor of philosophy at Texas State University, argues that these impacts could be greatly reduced without the poor going hungry if the public were willing to moderate their meat consumption, and if processors were willing to lower the industry's high stocking densities.