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me”.
27
And he adds, “in a thousand or ten thousand years” we might all become
vegetarians and look back at the “pioneers” only to discover they were “the liars,
cowards, hypocrites, and pretenders of the twentieth century who tried to spread
mists of confusion between their appetites and the places from which they indulged
them” (namely, the kind of factory farm Duff himself visited once in Iowa and twice
at New Zealand freezing works) (Fig. 48.4).
28
48.3 Breeding Contempt
With well over 600 chicken breeds in the world, and between 19 and 25 billion
individual chickens at any given moment (Gallus gallus domesticus), all descended
from the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)—of Least Concern by IUCN standards
29
—
G. g. domesticus is actually of infinite concern. A bird monumentally abused,
tormented. In terms of the geography of conscience, Gallus is the seismic epicenter
27 O. Duff, A Shepherd’s Calendar, Latimer, Trend & Co., Plymouth, Hamilton and Auckland,
1961, p. 118.
28 See The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution, by M. C. Tobias and J. G.
Morrison, Springer New York, 2019, p. 193.
29 BirdLife International. 2016. Gallus gallus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016:
e.T22679199A92806965. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679199A928069
65.en. Downloaded on 04 May 2020.
Fig. 48.4 Assembly Line, PETA Archives
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me”.
27
And he adds, “in a thousand or ten thousand years” we might all become
vegetarians and look back at the “pioneers” only to discover they were “the liars,
cowards, hypocrites, and pretenders of the twentieth century who tried to spread
mists of confusion between their appetites and the places from which they indulged
them” (namely, the kind of factory farm Duff himself visited once in Iowa and twice
at New Zealand freezing works) (Fig. 48.4).
28
48.3 Breeding Contempt
With well over 600 chicken breeds in the world, and between 19 and 25 billion
individual chickens at any given moment (Gallus gallus domesticus), all descended
from the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)—of Least Concern by IUCN standards
29
—
G. g. domesticus is actually of infinite concern. A bird monumentally abused,
tormented. In terms of the geography of conscience, Gallus is the seismic epicenter
27 O. Duff, A Shepherd’s Calendar, Latimer, Trend & Co., Plymouth, Hamilton and Auckland,
1961, p. 118.
28 See The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution, by M. C. Tobias and J. G.
Morrison, Springer New York, 2019, p. 193.
29 BirdLife International. 2016. Gallus gallus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016:
e.T22679199A92806965. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679199A928069
65.en. Downloaded on 04 May 2020.
Fig. 48.4 Assembly Line, PETA Archives
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