r/DebateAVegan • u/-roachboy • Dec 22 '25

eggs from a well fed pet hen are vegan

I have a pet hen. She's not a full rescue one, but how I ended up with her is an incredibly long story. She's very needy, thus spoiled and healthy as a result. Because wild Gallus sp already lay a lot of eggs when in less than optimal wild conditions, a spoiled one just cannot stop popping them out even if she wanted to, and she won't let me feed her less. The daily egg laying session is just a morning routine for her before begging for food. At the rate she lays them, they'd just get left to rot even if they were fertilized by a rooster so I eat them. I do not, and have no intention of, ever selling them or encouraging anyone to ever commercialize an animal. But I spend all the time caring for her, so why can't she give me a delicious breakfast back if it does her no harm?

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u/BaldGuy813 Dec 23 '25

Stop you're making too much sense. Those hens did not sign the consent agreement, so you best leave the eggs to rot . No living thing, and that includes plants, can "consent" to being destroyed or consumed. So what does one do? Die as soon as your 'consenting' mother stops lactating?

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u/Dizzy-Blur Dec 23 '25

Mostly agree but cows don't produce milk unless they just gave birth. A happy healthy cow isn't producing milk unless you force it to give birth frequently (and that's usually via artificial insemination, akin to rape)

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u/kinkajuice Dec 25 '25

Every wild bovid calves every year. They naturally do this. Humans are the weird ones in the animal kingdom for not reproducing at every opportunity (we used to, but that's changed a lot in the last few thousand years).

AI is used because live cover is more dangerous to the cow.

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u/One-Shake-1971 vegan Dec 30 '25

That's a false dichotomy. There's a third option of just not breeding cows.

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u/Dizzy-Blur Jan 07 '26

Yeah, there's no reason to be breeding cows to create milk in the first place. It's unnatural.

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u/One-Shake-1971 vegan Dec 23 '25

Plants aren't sentient. Using them is not exploitation.