The “Chicken Project” Put On Hold

Let’s be hon­est, most peo­ple have only a vague notion of where there food comes from. Until I went on vaca­tion to Ver­mont as a kid, I had never seen a live cow and that was over thirty years ago. So when a local school cre­ated an elec­tive ecol­ogy class that involved rais­ing a chicken from an egg and even­tu­ally slaugh­ter­ing and eat­ing that chicken, a lot of peo­ple got upset. Note that many of the stu­dents who took the course elected not to eat their chicken — there’s noth­ing like observ­ing the meat pro­duc­tion process to make even the most hearty car­ni­vore turn veg­e­tar­ian. Note also the chick­ens would have been slaugh­tered any­way, no mat­ter who (or what) raised them and that they were a spe­cial breed spe­cific to the meat mar­ket with a short life span.

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