Actually, it's about eating chickens, which millions of people all over the world do and derive important nutrition therein. Chickens aren't pets unless you label them so and even labeling a chicken as a pet only makes it so in your mind and yours alone. You could label a skunk, a shark or a snake as a pet and many people would not see them as pets no matter how often you called them one.
Many, many people have chickens with names, chickens they pet or hand feed and love up on and they still eat them. It doesn't mean they are eating a pet. The word pet is subjective, and as such, can only be determined by the subject alone. What may be a pet in your yard may be food in another yard. Saying this thread is about pets is a misnomer as no other type of animal was mentioned in the OP except chickens. Now, if you had mentioned chickens in a group of animals commonly known for being kept as pets, such as cats, dogs, snakes, hamsters, exotic birds, horses, etc. then the thread would be about eating pets as a whole, but since you've singled out chickens, which are more commonly known as a food and farm animal rather than a pet animal, then I'd wager this thread is about eating chickens.
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...and never once mentions pets, though the title does and never mentions chickens. I'd say the title doesn't belong to the post or this post doesn't belong to the title. You could have avoided the whole controversy by placing a title "Do you eat your pet chickens?", and the folks who don't see chickens as pets would never respond. Having a title as intriguing as "eating your pets" is calculated to draw those curious about folks eating their cats and dogs and the reasoning behind it, then they see that you've placed chickens on the menu and it all becomes something vastly different. Chickens aren't pets unless you say they are in your world....calling them pets in my world is just looking for a fight. I'd say you knew that and are just looking for drama.
