Eggs and Veganism: Why not eat eggs

In this article we explain why vegans reject the consumption of eggs.

Eggs and Veganism

Contrary to widespread opinion, the consumption of eggs, like the consumption of milk, is a direct result in slavery for the animals and before or after his death. Therefore, the attitude of respect for vegetarianism should exclude such products. Freedom and lives of individuals must be respected regardless of the species to which they belong, the only relevance to respect another is its ability to suffer and enjoy. No animal deserves a property.

1. The chickens are slaves

Like any producer, the goal of every poultry farmer is to get a good income from their exploitation. For this your business must be profitable and cover part or all the expenses of his family, amortize investments and making a profit.

The legal status of nonhuman animals is simple they are real. A hen can be bought, sold, is made to produce the most and when no longer profitable killed. This is legal and socially accepted as normal. Of course this is extensible to other nonhuman animals. The life of a chicken is safe only for his productivity index.

2. Selection of male chicks

When a chick hatches the egg is selected by gender and is sentenced to a life of slavery or death. If the chick is female it will go to the production of eggs, whether it is male will be shed to a shredder machine and your body may work to feed and serve as food for other animals. (Other possible destinations for a male chick are a dumpster full of peers to finally suffocating, I finish colors painted and sold as a toy at a flea market, etc ...)


3. The debeak (peak mutilation hens)

This is one of the most common practices that are subject hens. In this regard, we will let the manual on poultry quoted above explain

This practice has two purposes, to prevent cannibalism (which occurs frequently stress) and reduce feed waste. It must be done quickly because of that one BEAK TRIMMER machine is used with knife in hot usually cut both upper and lower beak. The hot blade cauterized (stops bleeding) cutting, thus avoiding massive bleeding.

The cannibalism begins with the start pecking and feather each other, until the break or cut skin and bleeding. If not controlled in time at this stage of bleeding, the most aggressive birds end up killing the weaker ones. The red color of blood is what catches their attention, so the problem of cannibalism, it is more serious in bird plumage or white light

4. A non-productive hen is a doomed hen.

If you had the dubious fortune of being born female saving the life after birth, regardless of the specific operating conditions you have to suffer, too will eventually victim of periodical selections to detect whether or not you productive.

In any egg producer is interested in spending money to feed a hen does not lay eggs. Therefore, if you look reveals that not just give enough benefits will be killed.

Again poultry production manual says

A team practice of detecting, first by sight and then by an individual physical examination, all those birds that have no uniformity within a flock and who appear sick and  or are not producing.

Once located a chicken with the appearance of not being output, it proceeds to check her separation with the pelvic bones, which are located on both sides of the gutter and between which there must be a gap of about three cm. This separation or space is necessary because there must pass the egg.

It is important to make this selection because the birds reduce nonproductive activity gains. For this reason, the selection should always be rigorous, you should do it when the birds turn 15 weeks old and again at five weeks into production.

Then you must perform at least once a month.

5. Conclusion

The simple legal status of animals gives us a very clear track of the consequences of our consumption. Chickens, like other animals, are properties of the businessman poultry. Its reproduction, the food they eat, the light will see and ultimately, his life and his death just depend on economic factors of production. When you kill a chicken is taking equal economic decision when buying or selling a pan.

This is possible because most people have not questioned that, regardless of the conditions, the fact that animal exploitation it is terribly unfair. Being human or chicken does not tell us anything about our basic interest to enjoy our lives. Therefore, just as we reject discrimination based on sex or skin color, we must reject discrimination suffered by other animals simply because they belong to another species.

Animals are not things, are beings with full capacity to suffer and enjoy. And this ability is what makes them worthy of genuine respect them. This respect begins not consider our slaves.

We cannot deceive us there is no exploitation without victims. Therefore, we must reject the consumption of eggs. Eliminating our demand for animal products avoided many deaths and suffering, promoting social transformation towards respect for other animals.