Natural selection is an interesting subject. I was thinking, many animals have developed all sorts of mechanisms to protect themselves or to detect other predators: camouflage skin, heightened smell, night sight etc.
But one thing I don’t understand is: Why the hell do they not change the way they taste? Think about it… if a chicken tasted like “stink bomb”, no one would eat it! If beef had the smell of melted tar, no predators would even go near a cow!
And on a side note, why the hell do chickens not get a fancy name for their meat? Cows are beef, deer is venison, and hell… pigs have ham, pork AND bacon!!! Why is chicken so boring?
Also, why is pork the “other white meat”? Who decided that pork was less important than chicken? Was it discovered AFTER chicken? Hell with 3 names for the meat, you would think that it was more important than chicken! This leads me to my existential question for the week: Which came first the chicken or the pig?
****”Pigs evolved about 6 million years ago in Europe”.****
***”Chicken evolved in the Middle Ages”.***
**”Around 5th century fall of the western Roman Empire”.**
*”Until the end of the 15th century”.*
ok. so.. natural selection.. survival of the fittest.. i get your point.. BUT… for all you scienc-y people out there, i just have to say this.. chickens can not direct their own natural selection. even if they had the foresight to do such a thing, natural selection acts on mutations that produce favourable traits which are then selected for by having better chances of survival and therefore increased chances of reproductive success..
so even if a chicken could taste like a stink bomb, they would probably smell like one too, and what cock (forgive the pun) wants to make baby chickens with a smelly stink bomb chicken? would that really enhance their survival skills as a species? and that is assuming that chickens breed freely.. then come the humans who basically unnaturally select all the juicy meaty tasty super chickens that we all eat in mass quantities for lunch & dinner, and thats after eating their ova (eggs) for breakfast . correct me if i am wrong, but there are no humans breeding stink bomb chickens.
why don’t we just praise them for being so magically delicious? and as for the last question.. the ckicken came first.. it just so happened that all the dinosaurs shared our preference for this tasty poultry (especially KFC) and so they ate almost all of them, causing the few survivors to hang out in underground circles until they thought it was safe to resurface again.. little did they know just hooooow delicious they were and that we would breed them in captivity by the millions to satisfy our greedy bellies. but damn, nothing goes with a pitcher of beer quite like a steaming hot plate of honey garlic WINGS!
“wings”, “nuggets”, “white meat”, “dark meat”, “quarter”, “half”, “drum sticks”. You know I’m talking about chicken even without calling it “chicken”. So there you go chicken got more than three names, which makes it more important.
Natalie seems to have answered one of your queries: a fancy name for chicken is poultry.
The egg.
Maybe it’s like the apple. Chickens evolved to be tasty because humans chose the plumpest, tastiest chickens, bred them together, and in return, chickens lead a life of relative safety and leisure, protected from foxes, the environment, steady source of food and mates, and guaranteed survival for their tasty young.