Never really saw the big idea behind this. I love me some beef, pork and venison, but I seriously don't think it makes me more of a cannibal than anyone else.
glasnost said: Except you are not all that closely related to cows, pigs, and deer. IMHO, it'd be sort of like you eating Homo erectus.
I'm not going deeper into this because English isn't my primary and I've repeatedly proven that I'm absolutely incapable of leading a technical discussion in it, so:
The relation between separate aves taxons (in this case, orders) is infinitely more vague than between the homo line species and subspecies. There are relatively very few significant differences whatsoever in the homo line. Humans are really deep down the mammalia taxonomy drain, while birds have a whole damn class for themselves.
Arent larger birds of pray known to predate on smaller birds? Also im pretty sure there are plenty of cases of large birds of prey attacking chickens and other domesticated fowl. Don't think ive ever heard anyone refer to that as cannibalism
Actually went and looked it up, and go figure, the last common ancestor for chickens and sparrows would have been at the Galloanserae-Neoaves split, which happened ~95 million years ago. Around that time in human ancestry, Euarchontoglires were splitting from Laurasiatheria, which is the difference between us and even-toed ungulates, e.g. cows and pigs.
