"Why Did the Chicken Cross the Barn? To Sign Up for the Scientific Study.

A farm sanctuary in New York is investigating the inner lives of cows,
pigs and chickens — but only if they volunteer."

"Farm Sanctuary, which was founded in 1986, has always held that farm
animals are sentient beings, even referring to its feathered and
four-legged residents as “people.”

“They have their own desires, and their own wants and preferences and
needs, and their own inner lives — the same way that human people do,”
said Lauri Torgerson-White, the sanctuary’s director of research.

Now, the sanctuary is trying to collect enough data to convince the
general public of the humanity of animals."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/health/farm-sanctuary-animal-welfare.html

LOL This must be a bunch of city people. They remind me of back in
the bad ol' days, when any grade school teacher would assure the kids
that animals couldn't think. They said they just did everything by
instinct, even though they still can't explain how that works. Just
about any farmer or anyone who has worked with animals much could tell
you otherwise. OTOH, Their "humanity"? I don't think so. No matter how
smart they are they are still nutritious and tasty.

TB

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