The thing about birds is...

 The thing about birds is that they're beautiful and majestic...we marvel at their ability to fly and find inspiration in the freedom that it represents. But when they wake you up at 5 in the freak'n morning every day with their CAW CAWs and TERRWERP TERRWERP and whatever clucking/guttural sound chickens make...it makes you want to eat them. And thus ends the story of why we eat birds even though they hold the qualities mentioned above.