Open AccessThe Domestic Chicken as Legal Fiction
Author(s) -
Estée Crenshaw
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
humanimalia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2151-8645
DOI - 10.52537/humanimalia.9611
Subject(s) - cruelty , narrative , animal welfare , law , political science , sociology , literature , art , biology , ecology
This paper explores the legal fictions surrounding the domestic chicken and its place in animal agriculture through a comparison of law and cultural narrative. The legal fictions examined are that of chickens as already dead, chickens as things, and chickens as a collective. Through examination of these fictions, a narrative of cruelty arises that questions the current treatment of domestic chickens in animal agriculture.
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