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These birds are being raised for slaughter, theres nothing really cute or endearing about it

If you need a hand with making your favourite dish vegan, send me a message. I’ll always be happy to help.

That side eye is real.

Roman empire everybody

This email landed in my inbox yesterday from @lush_ausnz and this was my reaction. Since then I’ve left comments on their Facebook page and their replies have just been unacceptable. I know that lush is not and has never claimed to be a vegan company. In fact, I know they use egg, milk, lanolin, honey and beeswax in their products. But as a vegan activist I feel that this campaign is disgusting, there is no such thing as #ethicaleggs and I’ll tell you why. #lush is claiming that because these hens are free range that using them as egg machines is “ethical”, but is using a female for her reproductive system ethical? Is killing male chicks ethical? - no it is not- lush claimed to me that their breeders don’t kill the male chicks and that they are sold on gumtree for “backyard use” and to schools for teaching purposes… are you KIDDING ME? No one adopts roosters for backyard because they are loud, dominant, (you can’t have more than one or they will fight) they don’t lay eggs and they don’t make good meat…. their breeds are specifically bred around wanted HEN traits. The males are useless, one friend told me her agriculture school used to adopt roosters, but for breeding purposes only. Whether they are killed as chicks or as adults, that blood is still part of the egg industry because they are 50% wastage. 50% of eggs hatched from the “layer hen” breeder will be males, which makes them useless. They are trying to pawn off selling these boys on gumtree (essentially an Australian craigslist) as “adopting them out”. Give me a break. 😒 ** disclaimer - I am calling out lush and their shitty campaign, they still do some good things but liking something doesn’t mean it is free from critisizm. If you like lush, you should be able to take a step back and not take this personally.

Why are #vegans like this? I saw a friend yesterday who I hadn’t seen in a few months and that’s the first thing she told me. I told her no to worry, she’d get over it…