Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

neither potpie nor chicken Parmesan was the reason humans domesticated them...

Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner for Humans

A study will look at how people interacted with the fowl in the thousands of years before coops became its home.

NYTIMES.COM|BY JAMES GORMAN