But eugenics applied to animals is just selective breeding. Or in this specific case you might call it natural selection (gasp).
There’s nothing wrong with that in itself, but it does suggest the existence of evolution, which doesn’t align ideologically with the Republican party.
Except viruses don’t really work like that. You don’t breed immunity you breed the infected lives long enough to breed and/or pass on the virus. And it gives it time to jump species.
And resistance to one disease doesn’t mean resistance to all diseases or that the other qualities of those chickens (e.g. overall size, egg yield, temperament) are desirable. And as we’ve seen with COVID and other diseases like Polio the surviving chickens could also have a reduced quality of life after recovery.
And beyond that, all of these chickens are inbred genetic freaks and crimes against nature in the first place. There’s nothing natural in the selection that made them.
But eugenics applied to animals is just selective breeding. Or in this specific case you might call it natural selection (gasp).
There’s nothing wrong with that in itself, but it does suggest the existence of evolution, which doesn’t align ideologically with the Republican party.
Except viruses don’t really work like that. You don’t breed immunity you breed the infected lives long enough to breed and/or pass on the virus. And it gives it time to jump species.
And resistance to one disease doesn’t mean resistance to all diseases or that the other qualities of those chickens (e.g. overall size, egg yield, temperament) are desirable. And as we’ve seen with COVID and other diseases like Polio the surviving chickens could also have a reduced quality of life after recovery.
And beyond that, all of these chickens are inbred genetic freaks and crimes against nature in the first place. There’s nothing natural in the selection that made them.