"As far as the chicken knows, it's just laying a normal egg. It doesn't affect its health in any way, it's just chugging away, laying eggs as normal." Scientists have previously shown that ...
In other words, the egg (stress) often comes first, but sometimes the chicken (a reduced hippocampus) has precedence. This should be taken as a sign that it is time to drop rhetorical conundrums ...
The great evolutionary question - which came first, the chicken or the egg - is a classic causality ... known as amniotes which later evolved to lay eggs thus freeing them to inhabit dry land.
There are more than 368 million egg-laying chickens in the United States, but when you have 82 million egg-laying chickens killed, you have a lot of potential eggs taken off the market.
“Think about how they are housed: small spaces with lots of chickens,” said Lempert ... The USDA also found that the number of egg-laying birds dropped for the second month in a row.
Transgenic chickens are kept in spacious pens, where they are expected to lay eggs as normal ... "We just crack the egg. I've become quite adept at cracking eggs over the years." ...