On: 'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across ani...

[DEADMINCE]

Pretty much the same reason I know there isn't a pink teapot orbiting Jupiter.

In this case though we have decades of research into chicken cognition and nothing to indicate they have self-awareness or an ability to reason.

The simplest answer is not that chickens have personalities, but that some humans anthropomorphize chickens.

[rqtwteye → DEADMINCE]

I am not anthropomorphizing chickens. I think they live in a different world, have different interests and think about different things than humans.

[DEADMINCE → rqtwteye]

That you are assigning them capabilities that humans have, but research has not indicated chickens do, I would say you are indeed anthropomorphizing chickens.

Can you support your stance with research rather than anecdotal observations?