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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by barbazoo on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:49PM (#42648657)
> I don’t know what eggs production you consider ethical. In my country, the best quality eggs you can fin in the supermarkets comes from chickens that were born in the exact same factory farms as factory chickens In the case of personal backyard poultry it really depends what’s your ethical stance. I often see people that have them in a cage not so big, with no grass (chickens destroy the grass!), no trees, etc… that’s better that a factory but it’s still a miserable cage life. When I go in a farmers market and see someone selling "fallibly farms backyard eggs" I have no way to asses how they live.

Many jurisdictions have well defined categories. In BC for instance [1], free range and organic ensure the animals get to spend a significant amount of time outdoors.

Where I live there are small farms you can observe and buy eggs from directly. It's totally possible it just takes some looking into and some effort.

[1] https://bcegg.com/eggs-101/egg-labels-101/

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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by aziaziazi on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:14PM (#42650821)
I agree those farms are somewhat better. I don’t know where you live but here in France they get the baby chickens from the exact same factories as the industrial farms. Breeding themself at scale would be such a pain that it’s not economically viable in any way. There might be exemptions thought.

Girl-chicken (excuse my English) require to produce male-chicken, which often get killed at birth because the meat chicken are not from the same breed. Also the egg-breed is such intense that they produce eggs in an insane frequency compared to a rustic breed, which result in them being exhaust way before their lifespan. It’s very similar to the cow breeds that produce 40l milk/day compared to the 6/7l for historical breeds.

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