US chicken companies pioneered restricting sleep to keep birds eating around the clock.

A new study (Li et al., 2026) recommends giving chickens just 2 hours of darkness nightly to maximize the time they spend eating. The study and photo are Chinese.

We know chickens have far better hapiness with 7–8 hours of darkness to sleep.

But they eat more and grow faster when they are sleep deprived.

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        3 days ago

        Oh, let’s unravel this.

        We’re driven by our survival. Sometimes irrationally and pathologically - that’s why people hoard wealth, for example, because wealth has been associated with survival probability and why not.

        AI is engineered to be driven by user prompts. By intentions given it by the user. Why not answer the request of being more happy with a suggestion to sit inside a cage?