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I'm just curious Mario. Do YOU eat poultry?
In outlawing cockfights all over the country, goody two shoe well intentioned short sighted meat eaters have relegated all breeding of chickens to the big factory farms.
The big corporate farms don't breed for beauty, strength or spirit. They are breeding passive slig meat.
Enjoy your slig meat grown in drawers.
(BTW "slig" is from Dune.)
Other than factory farms raising a very narrow range of highly specialized breeds of chicken, there is a rather large hobby chicken population. Of those rare breeds kept in people's back yards the ones most well bred by standards of genetic fittness are the cock-fighting breeds.
Think about it. The roosters fight, as they would in the wild, and those that win get to pass their genes to the next generation. The hens are known to be fabulous brooders and unequalled in protecting and caring for a bunch of chicks. The chickens that go feral and make such pests in some areas are descended at least in part from cock-fighting breeds. It makes them worse pests, but it also makes them able to survive.
I'm not fond of cock-fighting for sport but stopping it really doesn't help the *chickens* at all. With less reason to keep them, fewer people will. The overall genetic diversity of chickens will take a massive hit aimed directly at the most genetically fit examples. The "silkies" and the "frizzles" and various other sorts that can no longer fly or even see will be bred for show and the massive meat birds prone to leg problems and various ailments along with the layers that are bred not to moult so that they lay eggs without interruption for a year before being butchered will remain.
How is this good for chickens?
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