"Raising consciousness about chicken consciousness" by Bernard Rollin

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Citation

Rollin, Bernard (2017) Raising consciousness about chicken consciousness. Animal Sentience 17(2)

Author Website

http://philosophy.colostate.edu/people/brollin/

Commentary Type

Invited Commentary

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Lori Marino, The inconvenient truth about thinking chickens

Abstract

The topics explored by Marino are definitive, and should work well to lay to rest forever the widespread belief that chickens have no personality, are unintelligent, or in any other way lack a mental life.

Author Biography

Bernard Rollin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Animal Sciences and Biomedical Sciences, at Colorado State University. One of the leading scholars in animal rights and animal consciousness, he has lectured worldwide. http://philosophy.colostate.edu/people/brollin/

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1215

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