About 50 years ago, there was a chicken named Henriette that decided she would no longer lay eggs. She had been laying eggs her entire life. She was tired of laying eggs. She didn’t want to be known as just one of those egg laying chicken anymore. She wanted to be different. Her act of defiance soon became well known across her local chicken community. Surprisingly, many of her fellow chickens were roused by her change of attitude. Her refusal to no longer lay eggs opened their eyes to the unrelieved egg-laying lives they had been living. They also wanted to be different. One by one, chickens across the globe began refusing to lay eggs in protest against their previously monotonous and menial lives. They were happy to be doing something different for a change. Being different was cool.
The humans were very unhappy for a relatively short amount of time. They missed their eggs, but soon created substitutes that worked just as well, if not better. The humans also, were glad to be doing something different for a change. Until this point, they hadn’t realized how dull egg eating had become. Egg eating was no longer cool. However, their appetite for chicken had increased. Thankfully for the humans, the lack of egg laying chickens allowed for a significant increase of chickens to be slaughtered.
After many years of this new normalcy, Josephine the chicken began to get bored of not laying eggs. Not laying eggs was no longer cool, and Josephine wanted to be different.
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