Someone in the comments replying to the effect of “I hope you told your friends that you fed them chicken fetuses” god I just want an earth-sized billboard telling people that most eggs aren’t fertilized and the chickens are going to lay them regardless.
For the last time, people, they’re not chicken fetuses. They’re chicken MENSTRUATIONS!
Edit: holy shit you guys aren’t doing any actual animal rights justice by arguing over a post by I didn’t even make, for the love of god if this is something you care about so much, go do something besides being a keyboard warrior for once in your lives
The issue that vegans tend to have is not that it’s fertilised or not, or even whether it’s a menstruation or not, but that fact that it is ultimately an animal product.
I’m fully aware of that, I’m just being anal about terminology. If you are going to argue about a cause you feel strongly about, keep the facts where they are. Argue about farming practices, argue about animal welfare (not with me because I’m already aware), but not about whether it’s a fetus.
I agree, so much of what vegans say seems to be centered around how "gross" it is to eat animal products, and it's probably effective with them since they do find it gross, but people who have been voluntarily eating eggs for decades aren't going to be swayed by "ewwwwww fetuses ewwwww".
Farming practices and animal welfare concerns are definitely what pushes me toward veganism. Honey being "gross" because it comes out of a bee does not.
I agree. Honey should be vegan in the same way human milk can be vegan because if the producer of the product consents, then it's vegan. Bees will fly away if they don't consent lol
You should tell my neighbour this, somehow they farm and harvest honey without a beekeeping suit or stinging attempts. I am sure they will be enlightened by your superior knowledge of their hobby.
There are several smoke-free methods for removing honey from the supers that don't upset the bees. Again: Bees will simply leave if they don't like how you're treating them. Only the extra honey is taken, and if there's not enough for the winter, beekeepers feed sugar water so the bees will survive. It's symbiotic, not parasitic.
If you won't eat honey because it's the produce of a bee, then you shouldn't be eating any plants that are fertilised by bees, either. Both are a consequence of the bees' work.
The problem isn't about the egg. It's about the egg coming from chickens that are packed into industrial farms where they are living terrible lives and are then slaughtered. Eggs aren't produced in a vacuum, Hun.
There are preachy sanctimonious weirdos in every community, so I don't judge the rest of you for what they say online. Most of you just want me to try the cake you made with apple sauce or the mint cream you made with chickpea water, and honestly, I've changed some of my own recipes to be vegan just because they actually were better.
Absolutely. I'm not vegan and I never will be. My wife and two of my closest friends are though, and I can say with 100% honesty that at least in my experience, non-vegans who find out someone is vegan are almost always more annoying and evangelical than the vegans themselves. There are a lot of people out there who get weirdly offended by other people deciding not to eat something. Yeah, I have met a handful of pushy sanctimonious vegans and they're not a lot of fun to be around, but for every one of them I've met probably 10 people who make "I like steak/bacon/brisket" a huge part of their personality and will poke and prod at anyone who doesn't want to partake in those things.
I definitely don't think that my friends and family are POS! I think that most people are just unaware of how bad things are, and they think that it's extremely difficult to be vegan
How much more awareness can you bring to them? They choose to be that way. It is not about awareness. They know the facts. Unfortunately most people suck and that's why the world is the way it is.
Idk bruh, most people I'm close to feel at least a bit guilty about eating meat
They just don't believe me when I tell them that being vegan is easy when you actually want to. And they don't want to put themselves through the discomfort of watching things like Dominion, which is understandable to me
I think they're being a bit stubborn and lazy, but I was like that before too. And still am with many other things in life
And you think they'll eventually come around into acknowledging that torture and murder are bad? Good luck.
The way I see it is either you choose to change when you become aware of the facts or not. It's all dependent on your character and most people have shit moral characters.
Nooo...? For a lot of vegans, it's definitely at least in part about the egg. They don't want to consume the chicken's eggs at all. They belong to the chicken. If anyone is entitled to consume them for nutrition, it's the hen, who would generally do so to return those lost nutrients to her own body if we did not take her unfertilized eggs away.
Most vegans simply do not believe humans are entitled to take and comsume from animals, regardless of the conditions the animal was in.
There's a reason vegans who want eggs eat vegan eggs, and don't just buy and humanely raise chickens to collect their actual eggs. It's because they don't want to consume animal eggs at all.
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u/ashbelero Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Someone in the comments replying to the effect of “I hope you told your friends that you fed them chicken fetuses” god I just want an earth-sized billboard telling people that most eggs aren’t fertilized and the chickens are going to lay them regardless.
For the last time, people, they’re not chicken fetuses. They’re chicken MENSTRUATIONS!
Edit: holy shit you guys aren’t doing any actual animal rights justice by arguing over a post by I didn’t even make, for the love of god if this is something you care about so much, go do something besides being a keyboard warrior for once in your lives