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Thus far, our responsibility for how we treat chickens and allow them to be treated in our culture is dismissed with blistering rhetoric designed to silence objection: __ow the hell can you compare the feelings of a hen with those of a human being?_ One answer is, by looking at her. It does not take special insight or credentials to see that a hen confined in a battery cage is suffering, or to imagine what her feelings must be compared with those of a hen ranging outside in the grass and sunlight. We are told that we humans are capable of knowing just about anything that we want to know__xcept, ironically, what it feels like to be one of our victims. We are told we are being __motional_ if we care about a chicken and grieve over a chicken__ plight. However, it is not __motion_ that is really under attack, but the vicarious emotions of pity, sympathy, compassion, sorrow, and indignity on behalf of the victim, a fellow creature__motions that undermine business as usual. By contrast, such __anly_ emotions as patriotism, pride, conquest, and mastery are encouraged.
Karen Davis Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
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Thus far, our responsibility for how we treat chickens and allow them to be treated in our culture is dismissed with blistering rhetoric designed to silence objection: __ow the hell can you compare the feelings of a hen with those of a human being?_ One answer is, by looking at her. It does not take special insight or credentials to see that a hen confined in a battery cage is suffering, or to imagine what her feelings must be compared with those of a hen ranging outside in the grass and sunlight. We are told that we humans are capable of knowing just about anything that we want to know__xcept, ironically, what it feels like to be one of our victims. We are told we are being __motional_ if we care about a chicken and grieve over a chicken__ plight. However, it is not __motion_ that is really under attack, but the vicarious emotions of pity, sympathy, compassion, sorrow, and indignity on behalf of the victim, a fellow creature__motions that undermine business as usual. By contrast, such __anly_ emotions as patriotism, pride, conquest, and mastery are encouraged.
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