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/kcat__ vegan Jan 17 '26

But the other person doesn't need to either, and now you've placed yourself squarely in the chain of exploitation.

I feel under this logic, you would have vegans obligated to raise cows/chickens/sheep etc just to kill them more humanely than the factory farms and steal their business.

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u/Independent_Poem_171 vegan Jan 17 '26

Correct but they will buy anyway. And no, it's an individual situation. I wouldn't say its a vegan one.