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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, 284n
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
as intelligent, 239, 240–41, 242
manufacture of protein-based drugs in, 64, 165
medicinal uses of, 54–56
Persian empire and, 52–53
raising of, 137, 200, 210, 211, 219, 257
in religious stories, 39, 49, 76, 183
religious uses of, 43–49, 51, 53, 54, 99, 147–48, 152, 154–56, 169, 171, 172, 176–81, 182, 183, 185–87, 188, 189–91
reproductive vigor of, 152, 153
research on, 76–83, 99, 130–36, 138, 140–43
rooster’s symbolic history, 45, 46, 48, 49, 53, 154–58
as sacred, 46–49, 51, 154–55, 188, 192, 200
as sacrificial animal, 47, 48, 50, 53–54, 117, 148, 154, 171, 174, 176–80, 181–82, 185–86, 187, 189, 190–91, 203
sex and fertility linked to, 48, 51, 53, 152–53, 156, 157
sex organs of, 149–51, 165–67
slaves as merchants of, 193–95, 198, 202–3, 204, 206, 209
spread of, 4–5, 32, 41–42, 45, 46, 47, 65–66, 69–76, 82–85, 109–10, 133, 145, 146, 183–84
strange qualities of, 99, 148
symbolism of, 49, 51, 53
treatment of, 73, 179, 259
ubiquity of, 1–2, 134, 186
as underestimated, 3, 68
varieties of, 109, 132, 133, 137, 141
visual system of, 241, 242–43
vulnerabilities of, 184, 232
women as primary caretakers of, 185, 198, 203, 204, 205, 206, 209
see also cockfights; specific breeds
chicken soup, 54, 55, 61, 192
Chieng Ngan, 263
Chile, 67, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 111
China, 4, 7, 11, 15, 16, 41–42, 48–49, 52, 84, 91–92, 96, 100, 101, 109, 111–12, 114, 119, 121, 132, 144, 145, 146, 147, 154, 175, 200, 201, 219, 222, 238, 252–53, 254–56, 257–58, 259, 260
Chinese Silkie, 143
Chirac, Jacques, 231
Christensen, Glen, 17
Christianity, 42–43, 47, 54, 92, 131, 154–56, 163, 189, 194, 229
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 115
chukar, 33
Chung, Nguyen Dong, 251–52, 256
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, 182
Cicero, 187–89, 191
Cissonius, 229
Civil War, U.S., 195, 198, 231
Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 151
Clemons, Wally, 97
Clinton, Bill, 181, 191
Clinton, Mike, 165–67
cloacae, 149–50, 246
Cochin China fowl, 116, 121, 126–28, 140, 143, 197, 198
cock, as term, 151–52
“Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” (Melville), 109, 198
cockfights, 35, 48, 76, 81, 84, 85, 86–98, 99–108, 117, 169–70, 171, 172–73, 175, 200, 254
outlawing of, 96, 102, 103–5
as religious act, 99, 100–101, 169, 171, 172
Coetzee, J. M., 228
Cohn, Martin, 150
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 63
Cole, Fay-Cooper, 261
Colombia, 74, 93, 106, 107
Columbus, Christopher, 70, 75
combs, 5, 13, 24, 25, 34, 46, 52, 54, 55, 72, 98–99, 106–7, 139, 153, 157, 167, 200, 230, 232, 251, 253, 255
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx), 137
Compassion in World Farming, 237
compulsory sterilization, 63
Confucius, 100
Congress, U.S., 10, 15, 63, 212
Constantine I, Roman Emperor, 155
Cook, James, 66–67, 69
Coolidge, Calvin and Mrs., 152
Coons, Chris, 218
Cooper, Alan, 75, 81–83, 84, 134, 143
Cooper, Joanne, 129–30
Cornish Cross, 109, 235
Cornish hens, 199
; Cortés, Hernán, 71, 91, 92
Cottage Gardener, The, 127
Creek Indians, 33
Crito, 50
Cromwell, Oliver, 114
Crown Heights, N.Y., 176, 178, 180
Cuba, 93, 181, 182, 190
curassow, 72, 73
curry, 35–36
Cuvier, Georges, 132
Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, 45, 47
cysteine, 55
D
D’Alembert’s Dream (Diderot), 50
Darwin, Charles, 4, 9, 13, 25, 111, 112–13, 125–26, 129–30, 132, 133–43, 144, 146, 162, 230
Davenport, Charles, 63
Davis, Karen, 225–28
Defoe, Daniel, 102
Delaware, 205–6, 207, 208
Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village, 221
Delmarva Chicken Festival, 227
Delmarva Peninsula, 206, 207, 213, 220, 222, 224, 225
Delos, 152, 200
Depp, Johnny, 77
Descartes, René, 240–41, 242, 243
Diamond, Jared, 3, 67–68
Dickens, Charles, 115, 119, 136
Dickson, Walter, 124
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 110
Diderot, Denis, 50
dinosaurs, 158–59, 160–61, 162–63
Dixon, Edmund Saul, 9, 65, 135–38, 141–42, 146
dogs, 3, 9, 22, 73
Dominican Republic, 70
Dominiques, 199
Dorkings, 117, 120, 121, 127, 128, 138, 199
Down House, 136, 138, 139, 140, 143
Dresden, 56–59, 61, 64
Dublin, 124, 126, 197
ducks, 22, 117, 150
Dueppen, Stephen, 184–86
Duncan, Ian, 217
E
Easter Island, 66, 67–69, 74, 76, 79, 82, 83, 259
Easter Island, Earth Island, 67
Edward III, king of England, 114
eggs, 4–5, 205, 245, 257
development of, 60, 150, 162, 201
food alternatives to, 258–59
importation of, 202
nutritional value of, 253, 256
production of, 200, 202, 209, 221, 244
sex detection and, 168
structure of, 59
as test subjects, 56–61, 64, 150, 160–62, 166–67, 242
as used in vaccine production, 57–59, 60
uses for, 55, 117, 120
Egypt, 3, 28–31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 45, 83, 132, 153, 154, 155, 178, 183, 201–2
Eijkman, Christiaan, 62
El Arenal, 70, 73, 74–75
Elysée Palace, 229, 231
Endeavour, HMS, 66
Engels, Friedrich, 136–37
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