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INDEX

A

Abraham (slave),
194

Abzhanov, Arkhat,
161
–63

Academy of Sciences,
62

Aesop,
51

Africa,
65
,
73
,
101
,
109
,
140
,
182
–86,
192
,
203
,
248
–49,
253
,
257

African Americans,
202
–4,
206
,
207

as slaves,
101
,
189
,
192
,
193
,
194
–95,
196

Agricultural Department, U.S.,
206
,
209
,
219

Ahura Mazda,
46
,
48
,
153

Akhenaten, Pharaoh,
30
,
31
,
45
,
153

Albert, Prince of Germany,
113
–16,
119
–20,
122
,
123
–24,
126
,
127
,
136
,
137
,
197

Aldrin, Buzz,
19

Alexander VII, Pope,
158

Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, The
(Toklas),
230

American Antiquity
(Dueppen),
186

American Language
(Mencken),
152

American Ornithologists' Union,
21

Amundsen-Scott Station,
1

Andersson, Leif,
26
,
99
,
143
,
147

Angelou, Maya,
192

Animal Liberation
(Singer),
228

animal rights,
97
,
103
,
220
,
228
,
243
,
258

Animal Welfare Society (Philippines),
97

Apicius
,
200

Apollo,
51
,
53
,
152
,
153

Aristophanes,
51
,
52
–53

Aristotle,
59
–60,
152
,
153
,
156
,
165

Arkansas Agriculturalist
,
210

Armstrong, Neil,
19

Artacho, Isabelo,
94

artificial incubators,
201
–2,
205

Aruz, Joan,
44

Asara, John,
159
–60

Asclepius,
50
,
53
,
54
,
64

Asian Cochins,
199
,
231

Asian ostrich fowl,
120

Asklepion,
53
,
54
,
59

Assur,
43
–44,
45
,
154

Assyria,
43
–44,
45

Atahuallpa, Incan emperor,
72

Athens,
52
,
53
,
59
,
101
,
152

Australia,
65
,
74
–75,
78
,
140
,
175

Australian Centre for Ancient DNA,
78

avian influenza,
233
,
254
–55

Aztec Empire,
71
,
91

B

Babylon,
29
,
44
–46,
47
,
51
,
53
,
100
,
154
,
156
,
177

Bachman, John,
133
,
139

backyard chicken movement,
5
–6,
216
,
259
–60

Baird, Lorrayne,
153
,
154

Bali,
25
,
82
,
169
–75

Ball, Elias,
194

Banks, Joseph,
66
–67

Barkley, Alben,
207

Barnum, P. T.,
197

Barred Rocks,
109

Barton, William,
104

Basel,
157
,
164

basilik,
163
–64

Bates, Jennifer,
36

Battutah, Ibn,
183

Baum, L. Frank,
239

Beagle
, HMS,
111
,
130
,
133
,
135

Bede,
155

Beebe, William,
7
–8,
9
–13,
14
,
17
,
18
,
21
,
22
,
216
,
256
,
262

Belcher, Diana,
110

Belcher, Edward,
110
–12,
114
,
119
,
136
,
284
n

Bellow, Saul,
215

Bengal Jungle cock,
143

Bennett, John Cook,
199

Bevin, Matt,
105
–6

bilateral gynandromorphs,
165
–67

Bingen, Hildegard von,
164

Birds, The
(Aristophanes),
51

Blanc, Georges,
233
–35

Blyth, Edward,
139
–40,
141
,
143

Boddice, Robert,
103

Bourg-en-Bresse,
230
,
231
,
234
,
259

Brazil,
71
–72,
73
,
218

Bremer, Fredrika,
195

Brennan, Patricia,
151

Bresse,
229
–35,
236

Brillat-Savarin, Anthem,
230

Brisbin, I. Lehr,
18
–22,
23
,
26
–27,
145
,
264

British Empire,
111
,
112
,
129

British Museum,
30
,
111
,
140

British Parliament,
102
,
103
,
118
,
122
,
221

Brontë, Charlotte,
125
–26

Bronx Zoo,
10
,
21

Brooklyn, N.Y.,
176
,
180
,
227

Brown, Bill,
223
–24

Brown, Mike,
218

Buddhism,
49
,
170
,
228

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De,
129
,
131
–32,
144

Buff Orpington,
109
,
199

Bump, Gardiner,
16
–18,
20
,
21
,
23
,
27
,
264

Bump, Janet,
16

Burkina Faso,
184
,
186

Burma,
7
,
10
,
11
,
13
,
147

Burney, David,
77
–79,
82
,
83

Burnham, George,
196
–97

C

Caesar, Julius,
40
,
116
–17,
120

California,
104
,
203
,
205
,
217
,
220
,
258
–59

California Cornish,
209

California Gold Rush,
198

Caligula, Roman Emperor,
155
,
158

Calvert, Phillip,
194

Cambodia,
81
,
96
,
174

Canada,
110
,
124
,
208
,
217

capons,
232
,
233

Caracas,
106
,
182

Carnarvon, Lord,
30

Carrel, Alexis,
63
–64

Carson, Rachel,
18

Carter, Howard,
30
–31,
33
,
44
,
153

Carter, Landon,
193

Carus, Titus Lucretius,
154

Castro, Fidel,
182

Catholicism,
88
,
157
,
181
,
182
,
229

cattle,
38
,
118
,
184
–85,
189
,
199

Chamberland, Charles,
61

Chanel, Pascal,
231
–33

Charleston, S.C.,
194
–95

Charles V, king of Spain,
71

Charoen Pokphand,
255

Chaucer, Geoffrey,
156

Chawish, Baba,
42
–43

Chicken Chronicles, The
(Walker),
251

Chicken Every Sunday
,
209

chicken industry,
199
–206,
211
–14,
216
–20,
221
–22,
229
,
231
–33,
237
–38,
258

in ancient Rome,
199
–201

antibiotics used in,
211
,
219
,
220
,
231
–32,
236
,
259

breeding and,
197
,
199
,
207
,
208
–10,
211
–12,
215
–16,
217
,
244

chlorinated water used in,
236
,
238

diseases as beneficial to,
255

in Great Depression,
206

incubators and,
201
–2,
205

in Kenya,
248
–50

living conditions in,
190
,
210
,
219
,
222
,
224
,
237
,
243
,
244
–48,
259

obstacles to,
201
,
220

postwar,
210

profit margins for,
213
,
235
–36

slaughtering and,
203
,
219

slaves and,
193
–95,
202
–3

waste produced by,
224
–25,
257

in WWI,
205

in WWII,
206
,
207
–8,
211
,
213
,
244

Chicken Little
,
207
,
240

chicken meat:

alternatives to,
258

as compared to other meat,
199
,
202
,
206
,
207
,
208
,
211
–13,
214
,
257

consumption of,
118
,
208
,
214
,
257
,
258

as fast-food staple,
196
,
259

free-range and organic,
236

fried,
196

industrial,
236
,
254
,
258

as low on culinary totem pole,
53
,
118

nutritional value of,
55
,
253
,
254
,
256

in recipes,
196
,
200
–201

U.S. exports of,
213
,
219
,
236

Chicken of Tomorrow,
207
,
208
,
209
,
210
,
211
,
214
,
216
,
223
,
236

chickens:

American “hen fever” and,
197
–99,
211

ancestor of modern,
8
,
25
,
141
,
144

basilisks hatched from,
163
–64

bilateral gynandromorphs,
165
–67

bones of,
5
,
33
–34,
39
–42,
73
–75,
76
–81,
82
,
100
,
143
–44,
147
,
159
,
163
,
183
,
184
,
185
,
193
,
217

brains of,
5
,
54
,
134
,
242
–43

in classical art,
153

in classical Greece,
53

determining sex of,
167
–68

diseases and health issues of,
216
–17,
233
,
254
–55

distinction between meat and animal,
222
–23

domestication of,
9
–10,
14
,
26
,
31
,
99
,
145
,
188

as easily fed,
32
,
193
,
199
,
203
,
204

as essential,
3
-4

eugenics movement and,
63

as evolved from dinosaurs,
158
–59,
160
–61,
162
–63

exempt from U.S. humane treatment laws,
245
,
248

as exotic and royal,
30
–31,
45
,
46
,
48
,
49
,
177

featherless,
217

fertility rate of,
151

genome,
14
,
26
,
144
,
146

as gifts,
28
–29,
44
,
47
,
67
,
192

healing power of,
51
,
180
–81

housing of,
200
,
222
,
224
,
232
,
245
–48

imported to Great Britain,
120
,
123
–24,
125

industrialized breeds of,
211
–12,
215
–17

insults and jokes derived from,
158
,
239
–40