a question that i get with surprising frequencyfrom non-vegans and vegans alike is whether it's ethical to consume eggs from a rescuedor backyard chicken. it goes something like this. “my friend has her own chickens andshe loves them and takes really good care of them and they’re happy and healthy andthey lay eggs all the time that aren’t fertilized. so, wouldn’t it be okay for her to eat them?i mean if the chicken just drops the egg and walks away? or carries it to my friend andoffers the egg to her with outstretched wings? or leaves a little note on the ground saying‘please take this thing that came out of my vagina/anus and put it in your mouth?" okay i may have made up those last two.

but you get the idea. there’s even a new dietarydistinction called “veggan.” (and i have no idea if that’s how it’s pronounced,but that’s what it’s going to be today). so, let’s finally tackle this beast. whatis the ethical concern with eating eggs from rescued or backyard hens? hi it's emily from bite size vegan and welcometo another vegan nugget. i’ve answered this question briefly in the q&a for a speech igave, which you can watch here. but today i’m going to go into greater depth. andi’ll warn you ahead of time, i'm rather snarky in this video. first off, let’s address this veggan thing.veggans, according to dietitian jessica cording,

“follow the ‘rules’ of a vegan diet— they avoid animal and dairy products and eat a plant-based diet —they just also eat eggs.” yes, because something that comesout of the sphincter of a bird is definitely not an animal product. instagram is aflutter with the new hashtagand several articles have already been written on vegganism, one of which includes this gemfrom registered dietitian alissa rumsey, a spokesperson for the academy of nutritionand dietetics: “as people become more interested and aware of how food affects both their healthas well as the environment, plant-based diets, including veganism, are becoming more andmore popular and mainstream. veganism may

be appealing to people, but many find thatit is too restrictive.” because once you rule out the flesh of animals’bodies the secretions and objects that come out of their orifices, there’s just reallynothing left to eat! so why do veggans feel compelled to consumethe shelled menstruation of another species? protein, of course. i mean, where else can you get it? food writer vicki anne hadley, featured in the daily mail, was vegan for a whole 6 months before adding eggs back into her diet when her friend, who has her own chickens,offered her an egg dish.

hadley says, “i am very into fitness andhave a very active lifestyle so i wanted to ensure that i would be getting enough proteinin my diet.” never mind the fact that the usda has deemedit illegal for the egg industry to advertise eggs as “a protein-rich food” if they’reusing government money. it’s also illegal to say they “contribute nutritionally,”are “healthful” or even “contribute healthful components.” they can’t sayeggs are “good for you,” “healthy” or an “important part of well-balanced,healthy diet.” or even “safe.” eggs were even found to have the same atheroscleroticeffect as cigarettes in a 2012 study. however, the egg industry has been tryingvaliantly for decades to portray their product

as healthy, rarely letting legal restrictionshold them back and by and large succeeding in their goal. to hear the entire sordid conspiracybehind eggs, see my video the great egg conspiracy: lies, corruption & kevin bacon, linked hereand below. long story short, eggs are one of the worstthings you can put in your body. however, as you may know and as i always emphasize,veganism at its core is not about health. it can be the healthiest way to eat, but poorhealth doesn’t necessarily mean poor ethics. so even if eggs are horrendous for our health,what’s the ethical issue with eggs from backyard or rescued chickens? if you don’t already know, chickens on standardfarms and even free-range farms are kept indoors

in cramped, filthy conditions and forced toproduce an unnaturally large amount of eggs, robbing their body of essential nutrientsand leading to premature death. if they don’t die from exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition,they’re sent to slaughter when their production declines, typically around 68-72 weeks ofage, though their life expectancy is around 8-10 years. the most horrifying aspect of eggs is thatmale layer chicks are ground up alive or suffocated by the hundreds of millions every year.these are brand new, fluffy baby chicks, thrown into grinders while they’re stillconscious. so, all of that horror aside, what about theidyllic backyard and rescue chickens, living

out their lives outside in the grass, freeto roam and peck as nature intended? there are several aspects to look at here.first, where did these beloved chickens come from? did your friend -- because everyonewho asks me this refers to their friend or some hypothetical situation, so i’ll followsuit: did they buy them from someone involved in the animal products industry? if so, thatact in itself is supporting cruelty. but let’s say your friend rescued their chickensfrom a sanctuary. another consideration is, does your friendreally have the resources and know-how to care for chickens? backyard chickens seemto be the new urban hipster accessory. they are to hipsters what the pursechihuahua is to socialites.

many people who excitedly bring home theirchickens don’t realize the high cost of properly caring for them and either end upoffering a sub-par or even low-quality home for their chickens, turning around and passingthem off on someone else, or even letting them go as if they’ll returnto the chicken wild. but let’s say your friend knows their chickenstuff and has the finances and land. is it okay to take the eggs then? what not everyone knows is that chickens willcannibalize their own eggs. this is an important practice that returns vital nutrients to theirsystem lost with egg production. making an egg is a serious endeavor involving an extremeloss of calcium and pressure on the hen’s body.

this is part of why hens in the egg industrydie so early. in addition, taking a hen's egg away sends the signal to her body to makea replacement. so the more eggs we take away the more she’ll produce, thus continuallydepleting her body. if your friend’s hens don’t seem interestedin eating the egg, they can always crack it a little, which usually let’s the hen knowit’s not going to turn in to a baby and is available for eating. this is somethingi did when i volunteered at sasha farm animal sanctuary. and trust me, therewas nothing left. but what if your friend has cracked the eggand the hens still won’t eat it. can they then, finally, serve it up over easy, despite,of course, the health consequences?

isn't an omelete ethical at this point? here’s what it comes done to. hens do notmake eggs for us. they are not ours. and this insane drive to justify something – anything– that came from an animal because, god forbid we not eat something that came outof someone else, is part of the addict behavior of animal product consumption. if you think that’s extreme, take in thisexcerpt from an article in the guardian quoting isobel davies, co-founder of hen nation, an“ethical egg” farm. hold on, you couldn’t see me becausethe image was up. an “ethical egg” farm. let's proceed.

davies says, “i get so many emails fromvegans about our eggs. one woman said she couldn’t sleep the night before trying thembecause she was so excited. “ linda turvey, who runs the hen heaven sanctuarysays, “i get calls from all over the country. virtually all the eggs are going to vegansor their friends and family. i recently got a call from a new vegan who works out in the gym and wanted to order 80 eggs a week for protein." she also recalled one man from londonwho caught the train to horsham, a bus to henfield and then walked a mile and a halfto the sussex sanctuary just to get some eggs for his vegan daughter. now if that’s not addict behavior, i don’tknow what is.

i hope this video was helpful. if you wantto learn more about eggs, check out the videos below, including my egg video for kids. i’dlove to hear your thoughts on the backyard chicken debate and the veggan phenomenon.let me know what you think in the comments. if you liked this golden egg of a nugget,do give the video a thumbs up and share it around to answer this oft-asked question.if you’re new here, i’d love to have you as a subscriber. i put out fresh content coveringall aspects of veganism every monday, wednesday, and some fridays. to help support bite sizevegan’s educational efforts, please see the support links below or click on the nuggetarmy icon or the link in the sidebar. now go live vegan, stop eating sphincter food,and i’ll see you soon.

that was my favorite part. “they avoid animalproducts. and they eat eggs.” when you’re eating something that came out… of an animal… …the animal produced it. it’s literally…an animal product. it’s something that literally fell … outof an animal … … i don’t understand how this is not connecting. subtitles by the amara.org community

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a question that i get with surprising frequencyfrom non-vegans and vegans alike is whether it's ethical to consume eggs from a rescuedor backyard chicken. it goes something like this. “my friend has her own chickens andshe loves them and takes really good care of them and they’re happy and healthy andthey lay eggs all the time that aren’t fertilized. so, wouldn’t it be okay for her to eat them?i mean if the chicken just drops the egg and walks away? or carries it to my friend andoffers the egg to her with outstretched wings? or leaves a little note on the ground saying‘please take this thing that came out of my vagina/anus and put it in your mouth?" okay i may have made up those last two.

but you get the idea. there’s even a new dietarydistinction called “veggan.” (and i have no idea if that’s how it’s pronounced,but that’s what it’s going to be today). so, let’s finally tackle this beast. whatis the ethical concern with eating eggs from rescued or backyard hens? hi it's emily from bite size vegan and welcometo another vegan nugget. i’ve answered this question briefly in the q&a for a speech igave, which you can watch here. but today i’m going to go into greater depth. andi’ll warn you ahead of time, i'm rather snarky in this video. first off, let’s address this veggan thing.veggans, according to dietitian jessica cording,

“follow the ‘rules’ of a vegan diet— they avoid animal and dairy products and eat a plant-based diet —they just also eat eggs.” yes, because something that comesout of the sphincter of a bird is definitely not an animal product. instagram is aflutter with the new hashtagand several articles have already been written on vegganism, one of which includes this gemfrom registered dietitian alissa rumsey, a spokesperson for the academy of nutritionand dietetics: “as people become more interested and aware of how food affects both their healthas well as the environment, plant-based diets, including veganism, are becoming more andmore popular and mainstream. veganism may

be appealing to people, but many find thatit is too restrictive.” because once you rule out the flesh of animals’bodies the secretions and objects that come out of their orifices, there’s just reallynothing left to eat! so why do veggans feel compelled to consumethe shelled menstruation of another species? protein, of course. i mean, where else can you get it? food writer vicki anne hadley, featured in the daily mail, was vegan for a whole 6 months before adding eggs back into her diet when her friend, who has her own chickens,offered her an egg dish.

hadley says, “i am very into fitness andhave a very active lifestyle so i wanted to ensure that i would be getting enough proteinin my diet.” never mind the fact that the usda has deemedit illegal for the egg industry to advertise eggs as “a protein-rich food” if they’reusing government money. it’s also illegal to say they “contribute nutritionally,”are “healthful” or even “contribute healthful components.” they can’t sayeggs are “good for you,” “healthy” or an “important part of well-balanced,healthy diet.” or even “safe.” eggs were even found to have the same atheroscleroticeffect as cigarettes in a 2012 study. however, the egg industry has been tryingvaliantly for decades to portray their product

as healthy, rarely letting legal restrictionshold them back and by and large succeeding in their goal. to hear the entire sordid conspiracybehind eggs, see my video the great egg conspiracy: lies, corruption & kevin bacon, linked hereand below. long story short, eggs are one of the worstthings you can put in your body. however, as you may know and as i always emphasize,veganism at its core is not about health. it can be the healthiest way to eat, but poorhealth doesn’t necessarily mean poor ethics. so even if eggs are horrendous for our health,what’s the ethical issue with eggs from backyard or rescued chickens? if you don’t already know, chickens on standardfarms and even free-range farms are kept indoors

in cramped, filthy conditions and forced toproduce an unnaturally large amount of eggs, robbing their body of essential nutrientsand leading to premature death. if they don’t die from exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition,they’re sent to slaughter when their production declines, typically around 68-72 weeks ofage, though their life expectancy is around 8-10 years. the most horrifying aspect of eggs is thatmale layer chicks are ground up alive or suffocated by the hundreds of millions every year.these are brand new, fluffy baby chicks, thrown into grinders while they’re stillconscious. so, all of that horror aside, what about theidyllic backyard and rescue chickens, living

out their lives outside in the grass, freeto roam and peck as nature intended? there are several aspects to look at here.first, where did these beloved chickens come from? did your friend -- because everyonewho asks me this refers to their friend or some hypothetical situation, so i’ll followsuit: did they buy them from someone involved in the animal products industry? if so, thatact in itself is supporting cruelty. but let’s say your friend rescued their chickensfrom a sanctuary. another consideration is, does your friendreally have the resources and know-how to care for chickens? backyard chickens seemto be the new urban hipster accessory. they are to hipsters what the pursechihuahua is to socialites.

many people who excitedly bring home theirchickens don’t realize the high cost of properly caring for them and either end upoffering a sub-par or even low-quality home for their chickens, turning around and passingthem off on someone else, or even letting them go as if they’ll returnto the chicken wild. but let’s say your friend knows their chickenstuff and has the finances and land. is it okay to take the eggs then? what not everyone knows is that chickens willcannibalize their own eggs. this is an important practice that returns vital nutrients to theirsystem lost with egg production. making an egg is a serious endeavor involving an extremeloss of calcium and pressure on the hen’s body.

this is part of why hens in the egg industrydie so early. in addition, taking a hen's egg away sends the signal to her body to makea replacement. so the more eggs we take away the more she’ll produce, thus continuallydepleting her body. if your friend’s hens don’t seem interestedin eating the egg, they can always crack it a little, which usually let’s the hen knowit’s not going to turn in to a baby and is available for eating. this is somethingi did when i volunteered at sasha farm animal sanctuary. and trust me, therewas nothing left. but what if your friend has cracked the eggand the hens still won’t eat it. can they then, finally, serve it up over easy, despite,of course, the health consequences?

isn't an omelete ethical at this point? here’s what it comes done to. hens do notmake eggs for us. they are not ours. and this insane drive to justify something – anything– that came from an animal because, god forbid we not eat something that came outof someone else, is part of the addict behavior of animal product consumption. if you think that’s extreme, take in thisexcerpt from an article in the guardian quoting isobel davies, co-founder of hen nation, an“ethical egg” farm. hold on, you couldn’t see me becausethe image was up. an “ethical egg” farm. let's proceed.

davies says, “i get so many emails fromvegans about our eggs. one woman said she couldn’t sleep the night before trying thembecause she was so excited. “ linda turvey, who runs the hen heaven sanctuarysays, “i get calls from all over the country. virtually all the eggs are going to vegansor their friends and family. i recently got a call from a new vegan who works out in the gym and wanted to order 80 eggs a week for protein." she also recalled one man from londonwho caught the train to horsham, a bus to henfield and then walked a mile and a halfto the sussex sanctuary just to get some eggs for his vegan daughter. now if that’s not addict behavior, i don’tknow what is.

i hope this video was helpful. if you wantto learn more about eggs, check out the videos below, including my egg video for kids. i’dlove to hear your thoughts on the backyard chicken debate and the veggan phenomenon.let me know what you think in the comments. if you liked this golden egg of a nugget,do give the video a thumbs up and share it around to answer this oft-asked question.if you’re new here, i’d love to have you as a subscriber. i put out fresh content coveringall aspects of veganism every monday, wednesday, and some fridays. to help support bite sizevegan’s educational efforts, please see the support links below or click on the nuggetarmy icon or the link in the sidebar. now go live vegan, stop eating sphincter food,and i’ll see you soon.

that was my favorite part. “they avoid animalproducts. and they eat eggs.” when you’re eating something that came out… of an animal… …the animal produced it. it’s literally…an animal product. it’s something that literally fell … outof an animal … … i don’t understand how this is not connecting. subtitles by the amara.org community

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