#backyardhens — Public Fediverse posts

@Brian @Arseni https://understand-veganism.com/ claims that backyard eggs are a defensible utilitarian position - as a utilitarian I disagree: Backyard eggs are wrong because it is theft which causes direct harm. Hens like to brood on unfertilised eggs and also like to eat them raw. Especially since layer hens are bred to lay 30x more eggs than they would in the wild in order to prevent calcium deficiency the best thing to do with their eggs is feed them back to them.

All of this can be understood through a utilitarian lens and rule utilitarianism can cover abstract abuses more typically thought of as deontological like treating someone as a means to an end

#Veganism #Eggs #BackyardHens #Utilitarianism #Ethics #Deontology #RuleUtilitarianism

It’s spring. That means my aging hens are laying again, and the age-old AuDHD habit of putting eggs “somewhere safe” and forgetting where I put them has begun.

The cycle of life continues…

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#chickenposting chonking in the sun
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