Vegetarians ( and Vegans ) Thread!!!

I know that, but what is their objection to eggs? That's what I want to know. Factory eggs, sure, but I haven't been able to understand no consumption of backyard eggs.

There's a couple of layers to it (haha, pun not intended):

(1) Even with backyard chicken keeping, there is cruelty and death. At most hatcheries, most male chicks are killed soon after hatching because there is little market for them, typically by live grinding in a grinder or tossed out to crush and suffocate each other. For those male chicks that do live and are sold, they grow up to cockerels, and most chicken-keepers don't want a rooster (or more than one rooster). Which means folks either put the burden on a farm animal/chicken rescue or animals shelter, or they are butchered or sold/given away likely to be butchered. Many (though not all) hens are butchered after a few years when their production slows.

(2) For many vegans, there's also a concept that the eggs belong to the chickens, and that to take the eggs from them is exploitation. That chickens should not be used or commercialized by us, period. It's less about the experience of the chicken, and more about the ethics and philosophy of it. Although, they are particularly affected by the reproductive issues that a lot of hens have as they get older, caused by our domestication of them that has led them to lay so many more eggs so much more often than their wild jungle fowl ancestors.
 
I know that, but what is their objection to eggs? That's what I want to know. Factory eggs, sure, but I haven't been able to understand no consumption of backyard eggs.

I am a vegetarian, I eat my chickens eggs, my vegan friends do not.

I became vegetarian for many reasons, remember when it came out that meat processing plants used "pink slime" in ground beef? And pink slime was basically the ooze that came outa the machines with AMMONIA added. Ya that did it for me.

Gary
 
There's a couple of layers to it (haha, pun not intended):

(1) Even with backyard chicken keeping, there is cruelty and death. At most hatcheries, most male chicks are killed soon after hatching because there is little market for them, typically by live grinding in a grinder or tossed out to crush and suffocate each other. For those male chicks that do live and are sold, they grow up to cockerels, and most chicken-keepers don't want a rooster (or more than one rooster). Which means folks either put the burden on a farm animal/chicken rescue or animals shelter, or they are butchered or sold/given away likely to be butchered. Many (though not all) hens are butchered after a few years when their production slows.

(2) For many vegans, there's also a concept that the eggs belong to the chickens, and that to take the eggs from them is exploitation. That chickens should not be used or commercialized by us, period. It's less about the experience of the chicken, and more about the ethics and philosophy of it. Although, they are particularly affected by the reproductive issues that a lot of hens have as they get older, caused by our domestication of them that has led them to lay so many more eggs so much more often than their wild jungle fowl ancestors.
Thank you!
 

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