Post #4174417
2026-07-28 14:40 UTC
…More on chickens, our present moment and future deep time :
https://youtu.be/iTucNdeUOLc?t=1606
Raj Patel:
“One of the most capitalist objects, we argue, is the chicken nugget, and we went for this example because we would really try to take a aim at people who use the term anthropocene now.
You know, listeners will have heard of the the idea of the anthropocene as this moment in geological history that humans have altered the planet irrevocably, and…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 14:43
…“ if we look in the fossil record – in the stratigraphic record – what are the signatures of the anthropocene? Well, it’s plastic for example. By 2050 there’ll be more plastic in the sea than harvestable fish. There are traces in the fossil record of our atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. But one of the the signatures of what what some people are calling the anthropocene is chicken bones, because the chicken is the world’s most popular bird…