Sentient: Living, breathing, feeling...you're supposed to be feel compassion for that type of being. Try it some time.
That's not what sentient means.
Understanding what words mean; try it sometime.
That was the roundabout way of saying:
That's from Merriam-Webster, and any chicken that's struggling to move at all, making really unnatural sounds fits that definition just fine, so I repeat...compassion...try it!
Cory's more or less the living embodiment of a Reddit atheist. I don't think he's able to feel compassion for other living beings.