Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?
by animal-husband on Thursday February 20, 2025 @11:16AM
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Were that the case, you’d see vegans advocating for eating classically-husbanded animals. But I for one have never seen such a thing. And when I’ve spoken with vegans about this very topic, they’ve insisted that no animal can possibly be raised/slaughtered humanely – the belief seems almost axiomatic to them.
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?
by gbear605 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @12:22PM
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I’m generally a vegetarian, but I eat chicken, beef, and pork from local farms that raise the animals ethically.
Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?
by bluebarbet on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:32PM
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This conflates animal rights with animal welfare. The vegans who are motivated by the latter might do as you suggest. But a strict interpretation of animal rights means respecting the right to live. This underpins religious vegetarianism too.
Still other vegans are motivated by concerns about the environment. For them too, "classical husbandry" will not be a winning argument. If anything the opposite, since it requires more land.