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The Vegan Holocaust

by jger15 on 6/11/25, 3:12 PM with 4 comments

• by codingdave on 6/11/25, 3:19 PM

  > Alas, I don’t have the impression that chickens are very competent to live on their own in a modern city downtown, nor really in the suburbs either, nor really in the wild.

  The author's impression would be incorrect. Chickens survive fine in the wild. We even had a few escape and they have built a small wild chicken population in our forest. It goes well with the wild turkey flocks that wander the area.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chicken

• by damnesian on 6/11/25, 4:13 PM

  So what, this is what all species have to deal with, including humans. A fox killing and eating a chicken is nature. Humans raising billions of them for food consumption is not an imbalance that would be supported by nature.

• by giardini on 6/11/25, 3:50 PM

  Lacks knowledge of predator-prey models and so predicts a "chicken extinction".

  The article is unworthy of HN.

• by Rochus on 6/11/25, 10:09 PM

  Applying the term "holocaust" to a hypothetical population decline of chickens is a form of false equivalence that trivializes the human atrocity; this choice of words is designed to be provocative and frame the debate in a biased, emotional way rather than a logical one. The article is deliberately designed to provoke an angry, unproductive, or emotional response, or a political or ideological battle, and thus a violation of HN rules.