I don’t see why a chicken would choose any differently. We have no reason to believe that chicken-suffering is categorically different from human-suffering.
If we were to put a bunch of chickens into a room, and on one side of the room was a wolf, and the other side had factory farming cages that protected the chickens from the wolf, I would expect the chickens to run into the cages.
It’s true that chickens can comprehend a wolf much better than they can comprehend factory farming, but I’m not quite sure how that affects this thought experiment.
I probably would too, but I am not a chicken. I think you are over-anthropomorphizing them.
I don’t see why a chicken would choose any differently. We have no reason to believe that chicken-suffering is categorically different from human-suffering.
If we were to put a bunch of chickens into a room, and on one side of the room was a wolf, and the other side had factory farming cages that protected the chickens from the wolf, I would expect the chickens to run into the cages.
It’s true that chickens can comprehend a wolf much better than they can comprehend factory farming, but I’m not quite sure how that affects this thought experiment.
And I expect that a human would do the same thing.
I made a hash of that comment; I’m sorry.
This is testable; give the chickens a lever to peck that knocks them out for an hour.