By ANTONIO SIMPLICIO DE ALMEIDA NETO*
In the style of Millôr Fernandes
The Fox had a brilliant idea! Instead of taking care of the chicken coop herself and taking advantage of the advantages of this condition of caretaking of the roost and surrounding areas, and the obvious conflict of interests of such an undertaking, a conduct that has received much criticism in contemporary times, she decided to place her own chickens and roosters to take care of from the nursery of feathery, feathery and feathery in exchange for extra portions of feed and a prominent place on the perches.
What was not his surprise, it happened that these small food stimuli and the limited privileged conditions of space, made these emeritus bipeds advocate the elaboration of a code of ethics for themselves, under the allegation that it would be better to be under their own yoke. that under the power of foxes, as one of the leaders cackled at an event for his peers, revealing all his cunning and political strategy.
Little did these short-flying beings know that the Fox owned not only an extensive network of chicken coops and similar breeding sites, but also publicly owned slaughterhouses throughout the national territory, so that while they pecked at the corn in the feeder and in the yard, the The cunning canine returned with the dollars from the sale of cornmeal.
As if that were not enough, to dispel any suspicions about its noble intentions, Raposa decided to invest heavily in the debate on social responsibility and sustainability, and to this end held several educational events organized by the chickens themselves, where they had a voice, so to speak, and They organized round tables, conversation circles, themes, debates and guests.
In one of these co-co-loquies (pardon the pun...), imbued with the best entrepreneurial spirit of farming, a feathered sub-celebrity proposed the creation of the treatise “The chicken coop we want!”. The proposal was applauded by the fan base, who considered it a move of pure audacity, a visionary project, an avian panacea!
– “How come no one thought of this before?!”, said a young chicken excitedly to the wise, veteran and skeptical rooster, nicknamed Tiresias, who replied with a blasé air: – “Has it ever occurred to you that we don’t need bars and cages? Has it ever occurred to you to live free and outside the confines of the henhouse? “We want” who, pale face”?
Stunned by the never-imagined possibility of living beyond the limits of that playpen, the beardless chicken and his wise oracle of ancestral knowledge were captured, caught by their feet on a hook, lifted and taken to slaughter.
Moral: Reflection, early or late, does not save us from slaughter.
*Antonio Simplicio de Almeida Neto is a professor at the Department of History at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Author, among other books, of Utopian representations in history teaching (Ed. Unifesp). [https://amzn.to/4bYIdly]
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