Eggs/abortion

[Kidneylust]

Are eggs the same as abortion? Any kinda eggs, factory farmed eggs, or independantly farmed eggs.

[veggielove]

Eggs you eat from the store are not fertilized. So its not even like an abortion at all. More like chicken menses.... lol.

[Kiz]

I guess if they were fertilised they would be. But mostly they're not, so not to worry about that. (I have heard of people getting the odd fertilised one from smaller, back yard breeders. Never personally heard of someone getting a fertilised one from a large store.)

[Pirate Ferret]

My first reaction to the title was "oh for f*cks sake"
no i dont compare the two at all

[Thalia]

Eggs are produced by hens regardless if they have sex with a rooster or not, just like female humans do (our egg leave with our period each cycle).

I have heard people object to eggs on the grounds that they are chicken abortions (mostly on tv!), but I really dislike these kinds of arguments. They make vegetarians/vegans as a whole look like they are just concerned with fetal chickens (which IMO are worthy of some concern), and the "gross out" factor. Unfortunately, this takes "shelf space" in the public consciousness from the much more robust moral and philosophical issues such as the way most egg farms treat hens, or that all the male chicks are disposed of (often by suffocation in trash bags), or the question of if we really have the right to breed chickens as a commodity just so we can have eggs or not.

[hollywoodveg]

Nah, it's like eating a chicken's period.:rockon:

[Snow White]

Chickens don't have uteri, so they don't have any endometrial lining that can thicken and bleed all over the place. It's not like you'd notice a human ovum if you saw one.

[ReginaCeltarum]

It's like artificial contraception.

[hollywoodveg]

Chickens don't have uteri, so they don't have any endometrial lining that can thicken and bleed all over the place. It's not like you'd notice a human ovum if you saw one.

Lolz!