chickens actually rely on these unfertilized eggs, and by you stealing them, disrupt their cycle of life.
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Bullshit. The only "disruption" is the hen laying more eggs instead of trying to hatch the current stillborn clutch.
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Source: My family has owned several breeds over the years. I liked the silkies best. Fluffy, pure white plumage and skin ranging from dark purple to bluish-black.
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WTF you're an idiot. I'm going to eat eggs over easy, grits, and toast this morning just to spite you.
Edit: Just did, and I'm finishing up my coffee now. It was delicious.
No, they do not, you lie and I have no obligation to your views. I`m a predator, I did hunt and kill my own prey a few times in my life, I keep the meat-beasts I hunt to as low sentient as I can, so insects are at this point a preffered meat but damnit I will not be ashamed of anything I kill and eat. I`m also an omnivore and love a good sauerkraut and a salad but you will not make me eat just plant matter, period.
Like my father before me, I grew up on a poultry farm, so yeah, this is both bull and shit.
Also, chickens are not the cute little cartoon animals you think they are, they are fucking savages. We used to have a big toad/snake/frog problem when we first moved onto our farm. Couple months later, we start a brood, and there isn't a snake or amphibian to be seen. Chickens killed them all. So, fuck their life cycle.
I'll admit, I'm not a fan of eggs, but I do enjoy bread products, many of which use eggs in their dough. And you're not taking my fucking donuts away from me.
Glancing at the source, it's a video called "Why Vegetarianism is Pointless (and Only Veganism Matters)". Great, another Veganazi. Why don't you go timeshare with the bitch behind Vegan Artbook and spare us all your misery?
Yes, in much the same way human women rely on the unfertilised eggs that totally aren't flushed out during menstruation.
You are now aware that, whenever you eat eggs, you are basically devouring chicken periods. You're welcome ;)
learning the first effing thing about chickens, so as not to make a complete and utter fool of yourself the moment you talk about them, is not all that hard.
my backyard hens' cycle of life has been in no wise disrupted by my eating their eggs. sure, they notice and get furious with me, but they just lay more eggs --- and in any case, they tend to get furious at pretty much everything. vicious little feathered savages, chickens.
and they don't act any different if i don't collect the eggs, either. there's been times they managed to hide a clutch someplace i wasn't expecting them to get into, and i've found one hen or another atop a great big pile of eggs too big for her to cover, explaining why the production had been down for a while --- the drop in my collection having been my only clue something was up.
and you should see how they rush to gobble down any egg that falls far enough to crack it. that's the bright red line, to them; intact eggs they defend and lay on, cracked ones are a delicacy to be fought over. feeding them the eggshells back is good for them, yes, but proper layer mash should provide them with sufficient calcium anyway.
Rolled myself a basic breakfast burrito this morning: scambled eggs, cheese, salsa, and a flour tortilla. I figured it would probably give "cultural appropriation" nuts an ulcer, but I didn't even think about the vegans :-).
I am not a zoologist, but I would guess that today's chicken were bred to lay unfertilized eggs every day. So no, they aren't "relying" on them, for whatever purpose. It's the same with dairy cattle. Those milk cows were bred to produce milk every day without having a little one to feed. Not to milk a dairy cow every day is cruelty to the animals as every dairy farmer can tell you.
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If you feed and house chickens, you are not stealing their eggs. You have paid. ... and paid, ... and paid. These are not wild animals. They are livestock. You are a twunt with an overblown sense of entitlement. If someone dropped you naked in the middle of Somalia, you would be eating rats alive in a month.
@lofgren: less than you'd think. their behavior is still pretty recognizable to people who've studied their red junglefowl originators, and honestly, looking at how domestic chickens behave they don't seem very far "domesticated" to me. it's no surprise feral ones often do quite well without human support. the main difference between them and wild forest birds often seems to be that they put up with human contact better and consider us less of a threat to them.
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