Bridger Pennington breaks down a viral clip about how chicken ownership becomes a gateway to conspiracy thinking. It traces the path from distrusting the food system to questioning Big Pharma and politics, a journey he knows firsthand.
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Did you see that video that went viral talking about people that own chickens? You heard about this? Chickens are a gateway drug to conspiracy theories. Oh my gosh. And he's like, if you own chickens, it means you somewhat distrust the food system a little bit. Right, right, right. And if you distrust the food system a little bit because you want to have your own food, you probably will start looking at the pharmaceutical industry. And if that happens, you see the tie with the political system and how corrupted the political system is because it's integrated with the Big Pharma and the food industry. This is spot on. And it kept going on. This is email alert. All these, then you'll start distrusting this. And it went, this whole thing is like, so if you own chickens, like it's a gateway drug. And I was like, that's pretty interesting. And all the people that I know that own chickens, like totally down that path. And I'm kind of on that path too.