What do you think happens to male chicks in the egg industry? I’ll give you a hint, it involves industrial grinders and pink paste.
Cows produce milk for their young, like all mammals. The “need” to milk them arises from milk production, in which we forcibly impregnate cows and take their young away. You can hardly call something a “need” if it only happens once you purposefully impregnate a cow for its milk and abduct their calves.
And that’s disregarding the atrocious conditions in hatcheries and dairy farms.
The egg and dairy industries are the meat industry, and honestly anyone who’s vegetarian for “ethical” reasons without immediate plans to become vegan are deluding themselves.
If I help some mentally handicapped homeless women with newborn children, do you think it’s OK for me to milk these women since I’m helping them? Even if their milk taste the freshest?
Veganism is about not exploiting animals when you don’t have to.
Even in your scenario, there can be cruelty involved: the hatcheries you get your chickens from also grind the day old male baby chicks. These genetically modified egg laying hens that put about 1 egg a day have a huge strain on their bodies compared to what their natural counterpart used to be (red jungle fowl), laying about 1 egg a month.
But to reiterate, veganism is about not exploiting animals.
Not only the male, the female chick are genetically selected and lead to female having more eggs. I don’t recall the numbers but I think it is something like an egg everyday but in reality they would not have eggs everyday.
What do you think happens to male chicks in the egg industry? I’ll give you a hint, it involves industrial grinders and pink paste.
Cows produce milk for their young, like all mammals. The “need” to milk them arises from milk production, in which we forcibly impregnate cows and take their young away. You can hardly call something a “need” if it only happens once you purposefully impregnate a cow for its milk and abduct their calves.
And that’s disregarding the atrocious conditions in hatcheries and dairy farms.
The egg and dairy industries are the meat industry, and honestly anyone who’s vegetarian for “ethical” reasons without immediate plans to become vegan are deluding themselves.
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I was gonna say, i have chickens and get my own eggs. They are treated well. Even after their egg laying time is up, then they become basically pets.
I mean if you are vegan to avoid cruelty to animals, then raise your own chickens…its really super easy. And the eggs taste better too.
If I help some mentally handicapped homeless women with newborn children, do you think it’s OK for me to milk these women since I’m helping them? Even if their milk taste the freshest?
Veganism is about not exploiting animals when you don’t have to.
Even in your scenario, there can be cruelty involved: the hatcheries you get your chickens from also grind the day old male baby chicks. These genetically modified egg laying hens that put about 1 egg a day have a huge strain on their bodies compared to what their natural counterpart used to be (red jungle fowl), laying about 1 egg a month.
But to reiterate, veganism is about not exploiting animals.
Not only the male, the female chick are genetically selected and lead to female having more eggs. I don’t recall the numbers but I think it is something like an egg everyday but in reality they would not have eggs everyday.