You take a single component out of this complex process in order to make your point. This is highly dishonest.

It's the only component that will prove that we shouldn't eat them IMO. Let's get down to it, you're arguing that these mental processes are reason enough not to eat them, right? So does that make animals with different spatial cognition, the inability to remember a universal constant and those that are unable to display transitive inference okay to eat? Does that mean if we were able to breed those mental traits out of chickens and other animals you'd be okay with eating them?

Then human infants are dumber than rabbits

Yep. Still develop into people though who are considerably smarter than rabbits and poultry. There's no potential for higher intelligence through physical development with a chicken.

You once again fixate on a single component of the entire explanation in order to conclude that chickens are dumb. Once again, intellectually dishonest.

Uh huh. You assume that I have no knowledge on this topic beyond my opinion. Isn't that intellectually dishonest? Also, if the single component is found to be flawed, the entire argument falls apart.

READ THE ARTICLES.

Your links don't even work.

This is a complex ability like I explained but that you won't acknowledge because it doesn't serve your conclusion.

Compared to other cognitive functions? Not really. If you were arguing about the intelligence of dolphins, whales or elephants I might agree with you.

It's like you didn't bother reading any of the things I wrote.

Honestly I'm amazed that I read as much of your misinformed, biased opinion as I did. Go to college if you want to have a valid opinion on this complex subject. At the very least work with the animals you're talking about.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

you demonstrate that domestic chickens possess all these abilities and ARE intelligent.

A computer virus can be "intelligent" but that doesn't make AVG a tool for murder. It's the level of intelligence that matters, hence why I made the effort to use the term "higher intelligence" as much as possible.

So you don't bother reading any of the articles

Post a working link, genius.

You are intellectually dishonest.

And you're pretentious, presumptuous, uncivil and apparently can't successfully use ctrl+c & ctrl+v.

I'm not interested in discussing anything with you

Fingers in the ears, the sign of intelligent discourse and someone who knows they're right.