• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    Same argument could be used for Eggs and Milk then, those are not considered vegan, but in the end the animal does not get hurt.

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      17 hours ago

      Cows need to be impregnated by introducing an arm in their anus and holding their cervix so they can introduce a rod with semen in their uterus.

      Male cows and chickens are useless to the industry so they usually get killed soon after birth.

      Chickens usually are kept in cages the size of an A4 paper, cows also usually are very badly treated in order to be milked. Check out https://3minutes.wtf/ so you can see that even what the industry calls the “best animal treatment” is still very inhumane.

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        12 hours ago

        But what about self farmed eggs?

        It’s not uncommon for people in rural areas to have chicken around. Those chicken are taken care of, and roam around big spaces. Those chicken will also lay eggs on their own without any harm done to them. Most harm done is denying fertilization that would be similar to denying of reproduction to pet dogs or cats.

        Situations happening in industrial farming are not universal. Specifically about the egg thing I go out of my way to buy eggs that are classified in a way that prove that the chicken are not in that conditions of living their whole life in a small cage.

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          4 hours ago

          Males are still killed at 1 day old.

          Domesticated chickens were bred to lay about 1 egg a day when their wild counterpart lay about 1 egg per month. That’s a huge toll on their body.

          You seem to care and go out of your way to avoid needless suffering. Fortunately it’s easy to stop supporting animal exploitation.

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        11 hours ago

        I only buy eggs from a local farmer and they have their chicken run around in a rather large arrea