Sentient: “feeling,” and it describes things that are alive, able to feel and perceive, and show awareness or responsiveness.

What makes you think that chickens are not sentient. How can you possibly state that “they’ve never suffered.” Educate yourself before you make asinine comments like this . https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chicken+documentary&FORM=VIRE2#view=detail&mid=73B358C19AC6118E243573B358C19AC6118E2435

Exactly.
The way our governor of record, Jerry Clown, the head legisturd, the Preening Prince Ponce DeLeon and the real de facto Governor, Tom Steyer have declared war on the middle and lower classes and suburban and rural populations with their AB 350, AB 32, uber taxation, carbon trading and crony green scams, its possible chickens will soon have bigger apartments & condos than we ordinary Californians.

Comrade Eck,

Human misery. 1/3 of the residents in virtual poverty. Redistribution to globalists, high tech trinket makers, corporate food barons, plutocrats. Little to the poor, infirmed, helpless.

I believe you misspoke. You said ‘progressive’.
Surely you meant to say ‘regressive’.

Comrade Bunnie,

Plutocrats and slaver high tech trinket importers look at residents as helpless sheep to be clipped just enough to slowly limit growth and slow motion clean them out financially.

Futile this spiriling down dependence cyle….how much can the Visigoths take?

I don’t think people who can barely afford to feed their families at all really care about whether or not the chickens receive spa treatments before laying eggs. The over-hyped drama of supposedly mistreated chickens has gotten out of hand. Ranchers are raising food, not pets; it behooves them to raise healthy, affordable food, not mistreat their animals.

I would prefer that humane treatment of hens came about as a voluntary choice in the industry, but it didn’t happen that way. Nevertheless, the fact that it did is not a bad thing. And that is because, as I believe, there is no moral excuse for mistreating animals we raise for food, just as there is no excuse for destroying the land we live on to support a high standard of living.

The effects of Avian Flu on the poultry and egg industries are only temporary. It has benefitted the specialty producers who were ahead the pack with humanely-treated egg-laying hens. This means the quality of the eggs we buy at the store will be better-tasting, more-nourishing, and less adulterated with undesirable additives. How is this not better?

John Adams said Liberty is a power to do as we would be done by, which means that if we don’t apply the Golden Rule to everything we do then what we’ll get isn’t Liberty.