Cacotopia for Chickens

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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”, an excerpt from a timeless work of literature, The Animal Farm by George Orwell stands as a juxtaposed reflection of a dystopian world with rebel animals and tortured humans in a unique twist of fate. With humans amounting for a huge section of consumers in food chain; acting on our god complex, we often feel the need to decide the fate of other species with respect to which gets eaten and which doesn’t with no regard to their suffrage. Our evolution dictates that the pattern of consumption has since the very beginning revolved around sustenance, ease and availability of food as prehistoric humans are known to have been excellent hunter-gatherers. However, in the 21st century with high supply and demand of food, particularly from animals, has revealed a shocking dearth of humanitarian practices, inhumane domestication methods and slaughter of these consumable animal species— an appalling reality under the guise of sustenance and lifestyle in the food industry. 


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