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Chicken Farming Ethics

The cluster focuses on debates about the ethical treatment of chickens in factory farming, including male chick culling, comparisons to human suffering, and alternatives like backyard raising or stopping breeding for slaughter.

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Sample Comments

hacker_9 • Apr 17, 2016 • View on HN

Tell that to the chickens you eat.

IanCal • Sep 29, 2024 • View on HN

O1-preview I think gets this right. It assumes a distinction between adult chickens and chicks.https://chatgpt.com/share/66f890b2-04bc-8002-9724-2deaf3985d...

water-your-self • Sep 22, 2022 • View on HN

Chickens arent at liberty to choose their butcher, typically.

koonsolo • Sep 18, 2023 • View on HN

Why isn't it considered to keep chickens?

hermitcrab • May 31, 2025 • View on HN

If it is bad for humans, imagine what it must be like for the chickens.

CuriouslyC • May 2, 2017 • View on HN

Chickens aren't so bad, it's the roosters that you need to kill.

etcet • Jan 10, 2022 • View on HN

We can just stop breeding chickens for the slaughter?

sp332 • Jul 21, 2016 • View on HN

You mean chickens might make it harder for humans to reproduce?

woofie11 • Jan 23, 2020 • View on HN

It's like chickens rallying a chicken farmer...

hermitcrab • Jun 15, 2025 • View on HN

Chickens predate factory farming. Why would they stop existing without factory farming?