or eggs or other insect parts

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I know a vegan who has ex-battery hens as pets. She’s against taking eggs away from them because it may cause distress, but often they’ll lay an egg wherever they happen to be, and walk away. Those ones are fair game because the chickens have abandoned them, and they need to be collected before they rot in any case.

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      11 hours ago

      I find this one interesting. I knew a farmer who only had hens and so all of the eggs were unfertilized.

      Of course, its always possible that there’s some sort of immaculate conception and a hen will lay a fertilized egg, but I’m pretty sure that won’t happen.