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“The modern chicken is both a technological triumph and a poster child for all that is sad and nightmarish about our industrial agriculture. The most engineered creature in history is also the world’s most commonly mistreated animal.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

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― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

“The mystery of how the chicken phallus vanished was recently solved, although why it vanished remains a matter of some controversy among the small but dedicated band of bird-penis researchers.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

“the era of the transgenic chicken is quietly dawning, coming soon to your bathroom medicine cabinet.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

“The backyard chicken movement sweeping the United States and Europe is a response to city lives far removed from the daily realities of life and death on a farm, and the bird provides a cheap and handy way for us to reconnect with our vanishing rural heritage. This trend may not improve the life or death of the billions of industrial chickens, but it may revive our memories of an ancient, rich, and complex relationship that makes the chicken our most important companion. We might begin to look at chickens and, seeing them, treat them differently.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

“What bothers me is that we are so disconnected from these living beings, and our role as caretakers, in the name of efficiency and cheap food.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization