I love Smithsonian magazine- I grew up with it!- but have to tell you how shockingly offensive is this series of photographs. Would you make fun and amuse yourself with skinned wolf carcass or a raccoon body? Would you do it with a dead plucked heron or a dead frog? No, because it offends our basic sense of respecting dead bodies of any species, by not making fun of them. So why do you think its OK to amuse yourself with a dead chicken body? For the first time, I'm ashamed of you, Smithsonian.
Posted by Helia on June 14,2012 | 09:29 PM
This is fabulous! Bravo for your ingenuity and creativity. Its good to know the Smithsonian hasn't completely succumbed to the PC whiners.
Posted by Coronel Sanders on June 7,2012 | 01:44 PM
This isn't really clever. It's downright tasteless and an insult to any vegan or animal advocate who reads your magazine. I recall that in the not so distant past, Smithsonian was simply boring. Now it's decided to become downright offensive.
Posted by george shea on June 2,2012 | 12:21 PM
Sigh...I clicked on the headline because I thought they were going to be LIVE chickens!
Posted by Carolyn on May 24,2012 | 05:21 PM
Dare we call these photos "shutter clickin' good"? LOL!
Posted by Odyssey8 on May 22,2012 | 02:03 PM
June is over. Smithsonian Magazine's June Food issue will be gone from the newsstands. A quick dig into the mailbag pulled up these late coming letters to the editor, addressing our project HOW THE CHICKEN CONQUERED THE WORLD.
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To the humorless vegan and Mr. I'm-ashamed-of-you: This trivial article comes under the category of "playing with your food" not "mutilation of the honored dead". Find something important to complain about. Sheesh.