Chickens are synonymous with cowardice. Is it time to stick up for our feathered friends?

Summary

After Peta’s call ‘to reject mischaracterisations of chickens’, I wonder what they would make of Polish representations of polecats and Croatian cuckoos Chickens don’t have it easy. On top of living largely crap, short lives, they endure the ignominy of collectively being a byword for cowardice. The campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has written to the Oxford English Dictionary asking for this definition of “chicken” to be changed. Naturally enough, there are those who have been unafraid to holler “Woke nonsense!” as loud as cocks crowing. For my part, I think…

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