Folks hate on the omega-6 fats found in chickens. Paleos have been conditioned into knee-jerk reactions against any and all omega-6s, as if that whole chicken or raw avocado you're eating is equivalent to to high-temperature, hexane extracted corn oil. That's pure nonsense.

PH doesn't hate chicken, individual PHers hate chicken.

For myself, it's simply the blandest boringest meat I've ever eaten. When I get in the mood for bird, I opt for turkey dark meat which at least has some flavor. Every time I eat chicken, by the time I've finished it I wonder why the heck I bothered.

Edited to add: I know the PUFA/Omega thing is important to a lot of people, for me it's just the pointless flavorlessness of the whole exercise.

I haven't noticed this chicken hate, but it probably has its origins in the high percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids in chicken fat, especially with grain-fed chicken. The way I see it, PUFAs are ubiquitous in whole, natural foods, so in the context of whole, natural foods in a diet completely devoid of industrial seed oils, I don't worry about it. I'll eat the skin and chicken fat from pastured poultry, but with organic, grain-fed chicken, I generally limit myself to skinless breasts. On the rare occasions I do buy organic, grain-fed thighs or drumsticks, I bake or broil them such that the fat runs off and can be discarded.

I hate on chicken (and turkey) white meat because it's so dry and tasteless. I can choke it down if I dress it up enough.

Also, I still consider chicken to be sorta mundane compared to other meats because of my upbringing. It was cheap and we had it far more often than other meats. It's the last thing I would ever order in a restaurant no matter how it's prepared.

I love chicken but factory farmed and even normal free range chicken is creepy and bland to me.

Where I live, truly pastured chicken ends up being more expensive than grass fed beef. I do end up buying a few whole chickens a month and stretch it to make bone broth, but that is all I can afford.

A chicken bit me when I was a youngster. It hurt. I'm just sayin' - thats why I hate them.

Well, we raise meat birds almost every summer, so we usually have a freezer full of whole chickens. I get tired of them, I'll admit, but no chicken hate here. They do eat grain, but also a whole lot of bugs and some greens and flowers.

Beer can chicken on the grill, no hate here.

I pretty much only eat chicken thighs now for the flavor quotient. If I cook a whole chicken, the breast has to be disguised in something like tacos or something with sauce for it to be exciting.

Chicken is so boring. the flavor is bland. The only part of the chicken worth eating in my opinion are the livers and the heart. Chicken hearts are my favorite organ meat. The rest of the chicken is bland and I'm not too wild about the texture of cooked chicken.

chicken can have fluorine in it, because of the fluorine-based pesticides in their feed. Like, ridiculously high levels, especially in the skin, bones, and fat.

Aside from chicken being the most flavorless of all the meat options... I have to say it grosses me out to know that poultry is the one meat that under no circumstance can be eaten raw or undercooked. Beef, salmon, eggs, lamb, oysters, etc can all be successfully eaten raw when from a trusted source. The idea that poultry has such a high risk of contamination really turns me off to it, so it only shows up on my grocery list for about 1 recipe a week.

Chicken = boring unless prepared well

Something like a chicken curry or crockpot stew can be delicious (specially with bacon added)

I don't get crazy about some omega 6 if the rest of my diet is dialed, who knows maybe I'm even getting a good little hormetic stress from it?

I think slow cooked chicken is great...We eat quite a bit of it.

I'm going a little against the PH grain here to say that I don't eat chicken because after raising hens for years, I just can't bring myself to eat it much anymore. Now, I never liked it much to begin with, but now that I've experienced what dynamic, curious, interesting creatures they are, I have a hard time dealing with them on my plate. It's odd because I do NOT have the same reaction to beef (I used to live on an uncle's farm each summer and even helped with slaughter), pork, or any of the hunted meat I've consumed over the years. I do appreciate all animals that my meat comes from, but chickens are the only ones that I flat-out don't want to kill and eat.

I like chicken! Chicken and kale soup is one of my favorite things ever. Sure, there's the whole o6-o3 ratio thing, but if you're eating Paleo you're way ahead of the game and the thing about ratios is that you don't have to cut down on one side to even it out; you can just add to the other.

I do notice that grocery store chickens make terrible broth though. Greasy and bland. Don't blame anyone who finds chicken, especially the grocery store ones, to be blah. But anything blackened is amazing, so there is always that option.

I haven't noticed chicken hate. I eat chicken. Not as much as beef or pork, but I eat it.