We won’t blather on about the necessity (or not) of humans eating animals in this enlightened day and age, but let us have a moment of silence especially for the poor chickens of the world.
Not only are they food, they have also had a somewhat unenviable role to play in aviation. Bird strikes of jet versus bird can often have disasterous results and loss of human (and avian) life.
Read more here about how science has created supersonic solutions to the bird strike problem, courtesy off CNN.com