Chicken as cattle not pet?

Truly a fowl play.

I wonder if we ever start to see application-specific biocomputing systems integrated into server farms, we might really start calling our servers "livestock".

friends not food

>friends not food

Mildly OT, but reminds me of this iconic scene[0] from Roger & Me[1].

In some ways, (the movie[1], not the clip[0]) doesn't hold up too well. In others, it's still spot on IMHO.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ff68dXFsc

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me

I had a vague memory of this scene, but had not seen it in decades.

In my memory she was an older woman; seeing it now, the woman looks so young.

Also TIL there is a follow-up short film called "Pets or Meat" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-27-tv-24-sto...

Haha, yes, yes I do. We actually raised and slaughtered chickens growing up and I refused to them because I called them my friends, so doubly yes.

We raised chickens when I was a kid, and I still raise meat animals today. When I was quite young, meaning no harm, I wrote the name of one of the chickens on the package, to the horror of my sisters. They promptly wrote the same name on all the packages. I've since learned a little more sympathy for people who fall more on the friend side of the friend/food continuum.

Yeah, I grew up around it, but never learned to stomach slaughtering animals myself.

I just watched a Netflix mini series about a guy who kept eating his friends to feel euphoric.