[Southern California Permaculture] NEW BOOK Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization Andrew Lawler/Radio interview BPR

Fri Dec 12 11:57:49 PST 2014

Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

By <http://authors.simonandschuster.ca:80/Andrew-Lawler/410021754>Andrew Lawler

NPR on point interview with 
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/12/12/chicken-poultry-chicken-dinner

 From ancient empires to modern economics, 
veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a 
sweeping history of the animal that has been most 
crucial to the spread of civilization across the globethe chicken.

Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates’ 
last words were about it. Charles Darwin and 
Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs 
using it. Catholic popes, African shamans, 
Chinese philosophers, and Muslim mystics praised 
it. Throughout the history of civilization, 
humans have embraced it in every form 
imaginableas a messenger of the gods, powerful 
sex symbol, gambling aid, emblem of resurrection, 
all-purpose medicine, handy research tool, 
inspiration for bravery, epitome of evil, and, of 
course, as the star of the world’s most famous joke...
- See more at: 
http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Why-Did-the-Chicken-Cross-the-World/Andrew-Lawler/9781476729893#sthash.zxSOjPwQ.dpuf

http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Why-Did-the-Chicken-Cross-the-World/Andrew-Lawler/9781476729893
Why are there more chickens than people in the 
world? The remarkable story of what happened when 
the chicken crossed the road and the world

A reporter who writes about archaeology gets a 
writing assignment that doesn’t thrill him. Go 
find out how a chicken bone ended up buried on an 
Arabian Beach. “Follow the bird” his boss tells 
him. The reporter does, slowly realizing, that 
the bird that goes “buck buck” has a back story 
like no one ever imagined.  That chickens aren’t 
just food. They’re a historical 
bookmark.  Critical to the shaping of America, a 
bit player in several religions, plus, there’s a 
lot of them: more chickens in the world than all 
the cats, dogs, pigs and cows on Earth put 
together.  More chickens than people too. Not 
that they’re ready to take over. Or have they 
already? This hour On Point: following the bird. A chicken story.

– John Donvan

Guests

<http://www.andrewlawler.com/>Andrew Lawler, 
author of the new book, “Why Did The Chicken 
Cross the World: 
<http://www.amazon.com/Why-Did-Chicken-Cross-World/dp/1476729891/ref=sr_1_1?tag=wburorg-20&s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418327422&sr=1-1&keywords=why+did+the+chicken+cross+the+world>The 
Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization.” 
Contributing writer for Science magazine and 
contributing editor for Archaeology.

 From The Reading List

<http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/?no-ist>Smithsonian<http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/?no-ist>: 
How the Chicken Conquered the World – “Chicken is 
the ubiquitous food of our era, crossing multiple 
cultural boundaries with ease. With its mild 
taste and uniform texture, chicken presents an 
intriguingly blank canvas for the flavor palette 
of almost any cuisine. A generation of Britons is 
coming of age in the belief that chicken tikka 
masala is the national dish, and the same thing 
is happening in China with Kentucky Fried 
Chicken. Long after the time when most families 
had a few hens running around the yard that could 
be grabbed and turned into dinner, chicken 
remains a nostalgic, evocative dish for most 
Americans. When author Jack Canfield was looking 
for a metaphor for psychological comfort, he 
didn’t call it ‘Clam Chowder for the Soul.'”

<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/25/366639486/chicken-confidential-how-this-bird-came-to-rule-the-cultural-roost>NPR 
Weekend 
Edition<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/25/366639486/chicken-confidential-how-this-bird-came-to-rule-the-cultural-roost>: 
Chicken Confidential: How This Bird Came To Rule 
The Cultural Roost – “If you looked at Earth from 
far off in the solar system, would it look like 
it’s run by humans  or chickens? There are about 
three times as many chickens as people on this 
planet. And while horses and dogs are often 
celebrated as humankind’s partner in spreading 
civilization, a new book argues it’s really the chicken.”

<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/12/cockfighting_and_chicken_history_the_world_slasher_cup_in_the_philippines.single.html>Slate<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/12/cockfighting_and_chicken_history_the_world_slasher_cup_in_the_philippines.single.html>: 
Birdmen  “Like American baseball or the Tour de 
France, modern Filipino cockfighting is caught in 
a tangle of corporate sponsors and 
performance-enhancing drugs. The brightly lit 
concession stands, the blaring canned music, and 
the rows of clean toilets in the restrooms give 
the event a depressingly modern feel. Still, the 
people in the cheap seats are the working-class 
men that you would find at any Canadian hockey 
game, British rugby match, or Brazilian soccer 
contest. The real draw, though, seems to be in 
the gambling outside the ring rather than in the combat inside.”

Read An Excerpt of “Why Did The Chicken Cross The World” By Andrew Lawler

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