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Featherless Chickens

Posted by michael on from the inevitable-finger-licking-jokes dept.

Everyone and their brother wrote in about the featherless chicken. Besides the humor value, interesting in that we're creating another species with qualities that suit humans but unsuitable for life on its own.

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  1. Re:Humour value by battjt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    don't use those breeds...by nature's own design

    Which is it? Us breeding these buggers or nature? We created those breeds, just like the new naked breed. Naked chickens aren't any more unatural than any of our other breeds.

    Again, where do these wild boiler chickens come from? [HINT: The same place wild dairy cows and wild chihuahuas come from.]

    Joe

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  2. Re:Breeding new species by Debillitatus · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I agree. Breeding animals to suit human whim is totally wrong.

    Aside from this link, then, you would characterize the existence of any breed of dog as "totally wrong"? Or cows, or even horses?

    Kneejerk reaction aside, almost every animal we interact with on a daily basis has been changed to suit our needs. To be honest, we've also changed a bit to suit their needs, too. It's a bit overkill to dismiss all of the last 5-10000 years of animal husbandry as "completely wrong", wouldn't you say?

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    Come on, give it up, that's