OF WARS AND HEN EGGS: When we say, eat or order eggs, it’s done with a primal confidence that we’re talking about the eggs of good-oldGallus gallus domesticus, i.e. ye everyday chicken. With the helpful hands of mankind egging them on, chickens rule the planet’s avian roost. Don’t look now, but there are an estimated 20 billion chickens on our planet.

How would you like to be one of those census-takers?