Chicken

The chicken as we know it, Gallus gallus domesticus, is the result of domestication from the red junglefowl. While the exact timeline is debated, the domestication process likely began around 10,000 years ago in Southeast Asia. Archaeological evidence suggests the earliest domestic chickens in Southeast Asia were present well before 6000 BC, with their appearance in China and India later. 

Southeast Asia generally refers to the eleven countries: Brunei, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The region is typically divided into Mainland Southeast Asia and Maritime Southeast Asia.

Here today, I am eating my lunch of Chicken tenders and basmati rice...  and I start wondering when did the first chicken come about?  How many years have people like me been eating chicken?

TEN THOUSAND YEARS...

A lot of damn chicken has been eaten over that many years, I bet.

I am sure that chicken eating has been associated with a lower class of people like farmers, who you think of as having chickens and pigs around.  Best some of the finest and most exclusive and expensive dinners are made using chicken breasts.

Those who are looking to eat healthy and eating more white meat like chicken and turkey instead of red meat.

Personally, I like the taste of chicken almost every way it is prepared, and prefer it over steak, hamburger, and pork.

However, I am not too fond of having the necks cut off chicken, but that also hold true for how cows are slaughtered.  Of course, they are both just dumb animals.