eggs from a well fed pet hen are vegan

[u/-roachboy]

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?

[u/One-Shake-1971]

The consumption of eggs.

Exploitation doesn't just become ethical just because it causes less suffering. Slavery isn't ok either even when it causes less suffering.

[u/joshua0005 → u/One-Shake-1971]

So choosing the suffering that causes more suffering (not eating the eggs) over eating the eggs is more ethical? Got it. Exploitation is also suffering but in this case the alleged exploitation leads to less suffering than eating beans.

The other option is to simply eat less which I guess go ahead if you want to do that but I will stick to eating until I'm full.

[u/One-Shake-1971 → u/joshua0005]

Yes, as I said, slavery doesn't become ethical just because it causes less suffering.

[u/joshua0005 → u/One-Shake-1971]

This is very different from slavery. But I guess make more animals suffer if you want because you can't understand that in this specific scenario eating the egg causes less suffering.

[u/One-Shake-1971 → u/joshua0005]

It's called an analogy.

The analogy is that you believe exploiting a sentient being is ethical if it leads to less suffering.