A closer look
Enterprising farmers in the early twentieth century actually mass-produced tiny, rose-colored plastic eyeglasses for chickens in a desperate attempt to stop the incredibly violent birds from cannibalizing each other in crowded commercial flocks. Because chickens are deeply psychotic dinosaurs that will aggressively peck any spot of red blood they see on a flock mate until the victim is completely dead, these stylish agricultural accessories tinted their vision red to hide the sight of their comrades' bleeding wounds. It is utterly hilarious and slightly terrifying that the best solution human engineering could come up with for mitigating the violent, murderous tendencies of industrial poultry was to aggressively accessorize them like tiny, feathered Elton John impersonators. The fact that millions of farm animals were running around the American midwest looking like they were attending a trendy music festival just to prevent them from becoming flesh-eating zombies is a phenomenal piece of forgotten agricultural lore
