vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggsâŚ.why
people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens
This is not true.
1) honeybees do not produce âextra honey.â And beekeepers donât take some of the honey, they take all of it.
2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.
Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper?
Because I am!
Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We donât take all of it.
But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If thereâs a spike in the weather and the hive hasnât prepared new queen brood, thatâs it! The colony is dead. Because there wasnât enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.
Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.
I know thereâs an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.
If youâre this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).
But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Please đ
Also if I can harp on the chicken part?
Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and Iâll be the first to admit itâs criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.
Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.
THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS
Many people take to raising their own hens because of Americaâs immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like youâre not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially youâre just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find
Yeah, as someone who like⌠lives on a chicken and duck farm⌠Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs!Â
Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not⌠By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that bitch to the flashlight and tell if thereâs a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused!
Also, if you separate your cocks and your hens, there wont even be that issue in the first place. Egg-laying is basically chicken menstruation, but unlike mammalian menstruation which is full of blood and dead tissue, chicken menstruation is full of tasty tasty nutrients
Support local farms! Most grocery stores carry eggs from small, local farms that give hens acres of open pasture and healthier housing.
Also, that âselectively bred to lay eggs more oftenâ thing? Literally just comes from feeding the chickens every day. The chickenâs ancestors would only lay an egg when there was abundant food, so people started feeding them every day to get more eggs. Thatâs it.
