Bingowings said:

I see chickens as being as intelligent and worthy of life as a human toddler. I don't eat either of them.

I understand that to some people this seems odd but to me defending the rights of a blob of cells while slaughtering and eating pigs and cows is beyond weird.

Killing both is consistent, killing neither is consistent but to kill one and not the other is a dangerous paradox.

There's some logic to that argument, good on you for caring about all life equally and I agree with you generally on this subject... BUT the big difference is that poaching a chicken egg is only gonna mean one less chicken. Poaching a toddler could be one less Beethoven, Herrmann or Merritt. Equating a blob of cells that has the maximum potential to go cluck a bit louder than other chickens, to a blob of cells that might write the '9th Symphony' doesn't really cut it.