farm chickens

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Hi

 

I'm sure from the subject, you know what my question is.

 

I am wondering if there is any kind of harm you can think of that would come

to maybe a pet chicken that you would have. As in taking it's eggs and

eating them if this was the only hen you had on your " farm " or whatever.

 

 

 

 

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> I am wondering if there is any kind of harm you can think of that would

> come

> to maybe a pet chicken that you would have. As in taking it's eggs and

> eating them if this was the only hen you had on your " farm " or whatever.

>

Hi. So often when the subject of my veganism comes up in conversation for

the first time, the other person will say " but what about free range

chickens then? " and look triumphant as though all my reasons for not eating

eggs have just been thrown out. So, fair enough, it's hard to see on the

face of it why we should not take infertile eggs from hens who live

wonderful lives and couldn't give tuppence for their eggs anyway. But in

order for that female hen to be living that wonderful life on that caring

farm, another chicken died very shortly after hatching because he was male

and couldn't lay eggs. In the UK it is common for these incomprehending

little creatures to die by suffocation after being piled into bin bags and

put out with the rubbish. Another pleasant way of disposing of unwanted

chicks is to tip them live into mincing machines - quite legal and quite

common. So before the hen has even reached the farm, our desire for eggs

has caused intolerable suffering. As we are not discussing battery or

perchery systems I will skip over debeaking. A pet chicken would hopefully

receive veterinary care if she fell sick, unlike her unfortunate cousin kept

for commercial purposes. A pet chicken would also not be killed at little

over one year of age, again unlike commercial chickens. I don't know how it

works outside the UK, but here supermarkets will not buy eggs from chickens

over a certain age, beacuse the shells become progressively more fragile

leading to a higer wastage rate and therefore less profit. Assuming that

none of these factors affect the pet chicken then surely there are no

further reasons not to eat her eggs, as long as you are prepared to accept

the risks to your own health from bacterial infections and high rates of

saturated fat. Except that of course if you are trying to show others by

example that a cruelty-free lifestyle is best, then it's very hard to tell

others not to eat eggs because, well, you do, don't you? I hope I don't

sound too hard-bitten here, but I really thought that eating eggs from

rescued hens was ok, until I had that last little bit pointed out to me.

Now I just make a small donation towards their keep and don't take the eggs.

 

 

Seeing your pseudonym, I am reminded of a recent programme on the BBC where

an interior designer was doing up someone's house and the landing was

cramped and just full of doors. On the basis that he sould do nothing to

disguise them, the designer thought he'd make a feature out of them and

covered each door in leather. How could anyone live with a landing full of

dead cows and consider it stylish? On another programme this same character

actually installed a leather-tiled floor. Sometimes I wonder if there's any

hope.

 

Cheers.

Cathy

 

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