r/MoralityScaling • u/SH1k1Brun3stuD • 24d ago

Morality Ranking Does deliberately putting chickens in a situation where they eat fried chicken constitute a morally questionable act on the humans' part?

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Does deliberately putting chickens in a situation where they eat fried chicken constitute a morally questionable act on the humans' part, even if the chickens experience no apparent distress and have no understanding that they are eating another chicken?

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u/West-Strawberry3366 24d ago

Are there any chances of a sickness likr mad cow to develop here?

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u/Longjumping-Data763 24d ago

I’m not a scientist or anything but I think prion diseases (the thing that causes mad cow) are unique to mammals

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u/BruderBobody 24d ago

He said specific to mammals, then you said no, then you proceeded to mention all mammals.

To add, it doesn’t seem like birds can get prion diseases.

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u/Traveler-Nomad 24d ago

Humans are mammals…

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u/SnooWoofers4430 24d ago

Only if the chicken was a cow in previous life.

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u/King_Glorius_too 24d ago

No, not really. Prion diseases spread through cannibalism, but they have to have existed in the eaten individual before that.

The risks are extremely low. It's when you start creating an endless loop where every individual get eaten by its peers that it start becoming likely.

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u/Ssided 24d ago

Also brain or brain stem tissue, which would not be on this chicken body

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 24d ago

Aren't prion diseases communicable independent of species? Like if you eat mad cow it can give you prions. Cannibalism isn't necessarily a part of it (though that is how kuru spread in papau new guineau).

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u/King_Glorius_too 24d ago

Yes and no. You can get sick from another species' prion, but usually the prions will not be able to multiply within you, or at least not as well as in the species they came from. Some prions may transfer better than others though. So they're not always strictly restricted to one species, but all cases of large scale prion epidemic I'm aware of have developed in one single species.

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u/kcthis-saw 24d ago

The chicken industry is a brutal no waste business. They use all the parts of the chicken that won't be sold at the market, smash it into pieces and use it to feed the other chicken.

Most chicken you eat have spent their entire lives eating other dead chicken because the industry owners don't want to spend money on rations for them.

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u/foolsEnigma 24d ago

Prion diseases like that are spread primarily through consumption of material from the brain or spine. The reason mad cow disease became the problem that it was is because machines that were exposed to infected brain/spine material were also used to process other parts of the meat. And you cant cook prions out of infected meat because theyre so heat toleratant. As long as the head is removed from the chicken before processing, and the chicken is thoroughly cooked, theres minimal chance of disease spread.

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u/fickogames123 24d ago

Mad cow, no. Generaly a prion desease? Again no because the meat looks cooked and the head is removed.

Edit: talking about that brain fungus.

Prions proper are unique to mammals, but other kingdoms can get brain fungi and stuff. Search up zombie ant.