Post #4174415
2026-07-28 14:46 UTC
…“There are 12 billion chickens alive now – but not for long, right, because there’s 90 days from egg to nugget – and every year we go through 50 billion chickens, and that number’s only going up.
So, trillions of chicken bones already in the fossil record, and that’s a sign that it’s not a natural part of being human: that there should be so many chicken bones. If there’s any civilization afterwards they’ll find all these chicken bones and they'll be like ‘Well what generated that?’…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 14:48
…“And the story isn’t about humans being humans, because before capitalism humans weren’t relying on chickens that much. This is a bird that comes from East Asia, that's domesticated, certainly. It spreads around the world but it wasn’t cultivated in the sort of volume that you see today. So the fact that you can take the chicken and do with it what you want, that’s an example of cheap nature but…