The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed to be descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.The chicken is one of the most common and wide-spread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, from both their meat and their eggs.

I guess that means we should also stop raising cattle, pigs, chickens, turkeys and whatever else it is this world eats as a source of meat because God knows we kill millions more of those in a year than pheasants. I love how someone 2000+ plus miles away think they need to judge us here or even put their .02 into our lives.

“Yep they’re longer, bigger hens. But we don’t raise ‘em for the meat so much as the aigs. A reglar chicken don’t lay no more than one a day. These chickens lay one long one every three days, an’ it take about three hens lined up to hatch it.”

"I’m so tired of the white meat campaign. I think it’s unfair and in defense of drumsticks everywhere, I’m speaking out. Dark meat contains good fats as well as the much-maligned saturated fat, and dark meat also contains lots of vitamins. Start worrying more about how that meat was raised, what it was fed, and where it’s coming from."

Strong demand for corn to use in ethanol plants is driving up the cost of livestock and will raise prices for beef, pork and chicken, the Agriculture Department said Friday. Meat and poultry production will fall as producers face higher feed costs, the department said in its monthly crop report.

The Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’: According to U.N., Animals Raised for Food Generate More Greenhouse Gases Than All Cars and Trucks Combined. PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian and offering to cook him faux "fried chicken".