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Re:Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cr... by eigenket on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:03AM (#39990247)
> And there's no ethical problems when it's in a backyard or the chickens are free ranging.

I believe there are. The people buying the chickens for their lovely free range or backyard thing are specifically only buying female ones. The males get killed, usually in somewhat gruesome ways shortly after hatching.

That might not be an ethical problem for you but it is for me.

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Re:Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cr... by adrian_b on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:38AM (#39991201)
While I agree with you, as already mentioned by other poster it is likely that the practice of killing the males will be banned in most places and it will disappear, because now there are means to detect the sex of the eggs, so the male eggs can be selected for egg consumption.
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