NY Times helps blur distinction between "pets" and "food animals"

While it appears that the profiled chickens came from a couple that uses the eggs of their birds, the reason this article ended up at AAFL and in The New York times is the author's marvelling over how chickens defy our rather limited knowledge of their behavior and personalities:

Whoever coined the phrase “dumb cluck” never met our chickens. All I had to do was open the refrigerator door and both would come running.

Not news to me or my constant readers, but I'm sure many of you will find the piece useful in disabusing your friends and families of their stereotypes about birds.

Please send the editor your letters in support of chickens, the most abused and consumed animal in America. This is a good time to remind readers of the arbitrary distinction between animals kept as pets and those turned into food, and to recommend a vegan diet as a way to eliminate this moral schizophrenia from their diets.