This is how being tasty and easy to catch can lead to enormous reproductive success, plentiful free food, and access to advanced medicines, also free! Cats, who chose a different route, get the reverse if that, being spayed as a norm, getting their nature's KPI much lower than chickens' or even cows'. Oh wait...

Seriously, you can see it as an evolutionary trap of specialization, getting into a deep (local) maximum without a feasible way out, should circumstances change.

I’ve always made this joke about Tobacco. It’s a parasite that modifies our brain chemistry to make us physically dependent upon it.

It feels a little more “HaHaOnlySerious” with Tobacco, because it is clearly harmful to its “host organism,” whereas cultivated livestock and Cannabis (or Coffee) are arguably good for humans.

From what I remember (and I may be thinking of the wrong book) "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari goes into this theory in great detail. It argues the case that chickens are the most successful animals on the planet when it comes to reproducing and passing on their genes despite being very low on the food chain.

There is a tv show they literally makes that point about cannabis. And apples.