I'm confused by this take; chickens produce eggs naturally, it's their menstruation cycle. If it's fertilized by a male rooster, the egg will produce a chick. If not, it's just an egg.
It's no different than a woman's period except our eggs are much much smaller. A chicken in someone's backyard isn't being 'forced' to lay eggs. You can disagree with the ethics of keeping an animal hostage but I'm having a hard time making sense of this take, can you explain?
Sure, I highly recommend reading this article, but here are some good quotes from it:
For each egg a hen produces, they excrete 10% of the calcium (for the shell) that is stored in their bones. This is why you’ll often see egg-laying hens with weak or broken bones, osteoporosis or even paralysis ... hens have a natural tendency to eat their own eggs to replenish the nutrients that are lost during the egg-laying process.
There are a few things that can go wrong with egg-laying chickens. Eggs can get stuck inside them, and unfortunately, if they break, it can get infected and they can die if gone untreated. One of the reasons this could be is because they don’t have enough calcium in their system to make a strong enough eggshell.
Chickens instinctively lay more eggs when their eggs are taken away from them. So when we take eggs away, we’re encouraging them to lay more eggs in what is called a clutch. A clutch is simply a group of eggs being produced by the hens in one period. So, the less we take, the less they lay.
Laying an egg is a huge process for a chicken and takes a lot, so they need nutrients from the eggs they can eat. When we take the eggs from the chickens, we're directly harming them by blocking them from something they need - lowering their quality of life.
Yes, the article mentions that too. Many can lay up to 300 eggs a year now, which is devastating to their bodies.
I didn't know any of that! Also, I'm now going through and reading other articles on the blog. I like the author's writing style a lot.
Yeah, I actually did that after linking it too lol. It seems like a good site
In addition to that article linked watch the video that's in the pinned post about eggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utPkDP3T7R4 there's a section on how we've bred chickens to devastate their own bodies with egg production. CW: lots of animal gore, but I think it's good to watch to understand exactly how horrible the practice is.
I was rewatching Hot Streets and there is an Anti Factory Farming episode out of nowhere for a surreal show about the FBI shooting monsters and aliens.
It's an adult swim show. They get recruited to fight in an intergalactic cock fighting blood sport, and it ends with them getting into a gun fight with the intergalactic FDA
What do you recommend folks replace eggs with in recipes or as a core meal component? It'd be helpful to include suggestions for people instead of saying "survive without eggs"
9 Best Vegan Egg Substitutes For Baking - plenty of options here
It would also be helpful if you included examples, bc I don't really run into this problem with the foods I eat
It’d be helpful to include suggestions for people instead of saying “survive without eggs”
Survive without eggs :gigachad:
Seriously, this is absurd. I don't have a moral obligation to bargain with you about how you're going to get by without harming innocents for fucking cake or whatever. Just stop abusing animals. That is step 1, the final step. There is literally no obstacle to you surviving without eggs, so just stop eating eggs.
My neighbor has chickens and they just cluck around the yard and lay eggs whenever and wherever they want. Should my neighbor just let the eggs rot on the ground?
Yes they should. Good video by earthling ed on the issues with backyard eggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFz99OT18k
Your neighbor should let the chickens do what they want with the eggs (eat them). If your neighbor is feeling especially generous they can also cook the eggs for the chicken to eat since, and this might be shocking, the eggs belong to the chicken
I'll also refer you to: this comment
