Sun, 05 Feb 2006
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Join The Debate: Free Range
The only way to eat your eggs? A friendly way to
eat meat? Better than factory? Join the debate.
Posted 13:21
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7 comments
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Personally, i think that eggs are here for
chickens and birds to reproduce with-not for
humans to eat so i don't think eggs should be
collected and eaten at all. It's like someone
going onto a maternity ward in hospital and
collecting all the new born babies and selling
them to some weird animal that wants to eat them!
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Sorry Rosa, I'd have to disagree a little there.
Yes, I do agree really, however not all of the
eggs have been fertalised and many won't hatch.
Yes, I know, that's because farming is like it
is. But while this farming is going on it would
be less wastful. Yet, I could turn that around
on myself and say 'If you do buy these eggs,
current farming would continue.' I'm mixed
viewed. Let's just put it this way... I'm going
vegan when I leave home!
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Different chickens
The chickens that produce eggs - free range or
not - are called 'egg laying hens'. None of the
eggs you buy from the super market would have
ever had the chance to be fertilised since there
are no males around in these farms. A chicken's
egg is the equivalent to a human menstrual cycle
or period. The chickens that we eat (unless they
lived for years on a small farm) are generally
killed between 6 - 10 weeks. This is before they
reach sexual maturity so they are unable to pro-
create i.e. produce eggs or chicks. These
chickens at slaughter have blue eyes and cheap
even though their bodies are large.
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I think that free range is great! I would rather
eat that than intensivly farmed stuff. I have to
agree with Jas and Oriel though. What is wrong
with eating eggs, is my view. If they are not
fertalised then they are like a waste product,
and as long as the chickens weren't in pain or
cramped conditions then I think that its fine.
Anyway, babies are fertalised and they are born.
The chicken equivalant to that is eating a newly
hatched chick not an egg. In human terms it
would just be like eating an unfertalised egg
(which is a waste product)
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free range
I think it is a good idea. by the way birds lay
eggs every week
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free range
I think it is a good idea. by the way birds lay
eggs every week
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Free range
Unfortunately, a lot of so- called free ranged animals aren't kept
well. They can keep chicken in sheds with little room, keep cows
in for the winter on concrete so their hooves wear down, force
ewes to have lambs to early so they die and call it free range.
Free range doesn't mean cruelty free.
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