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Well, how is slaughtering chickens ethical? For every egg-laying chicken out there, a male chicken is slaughtered, and both egg-laying and dairy milking harm t
by svrtknst 8y ago
Well, how is slaughtering chickens ethical?
For every egg-laying chicken out there, a male chicken is slaughtered, and both egg-laying and dairy milking harm the animals (for instance, compare avg. life span of a dairy cow with their natural life-span).
There's also the factor of number of animals killed - One lamb feeds a lot more people than one chicken, yet both are living animals capable of pain and suffering.
That's not to say that either is particularly ethical, but (as a vegan), I don't think you can easily say that eating eggs is intrinsically more ethical than eating meat.
- jrace 8y agoNot all eggs come from industrial slaughter farms. At least where I live farm fresh eggs from chickens who live cage free are readily available. But the point of my comment us not that Lambs are less ethical than chickens...but killing and eating a few week old animal is hardly "more" ethical.