This chapter explores the difference between the speaker's experience with chickens in their childhood (a pre-modern relationship with nature) versus their experience in America (a modern relationship with industrialized meat). The speaker argues that modern industrialization has stripped chickens of their natural wholeness, turning them into mere parts rather than living beings.
Modernity's impact on the understanding of chickens.
The contrast between pre-modern and modern relationships with chickens.
The loss of 'chicken-ness' in industrialized chicken production.