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• amzd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only way you can have cows milk is by impregnating cows. Google how this is done, there is tutorial videos on YouTube. It is horrible.

  The only way people have egg laying hens is by killing the male chicks. This happens even with backyard chickens.

  Be real man.

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  • spacesatan@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s extremely rare outside of I think Germany but they have commercial in-ovo sexing for laying chickens now. Conditions for laying chickens are still fucked though.

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    • amzd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you have a source? I can’t find statistics on how many eggs sold are actually using this method.

      I found an article from the guardian that mentions it is 98.5% accurate (as claimed by the company, not peer-reviewed) and they somehow claim the eggs sold using this method did not kill any male chicks. What do they do with the 1.5% of hatchlings that are male? Just put them in a cage to die of natural causes? There is billions of hens so that would be millions of male hatchlings even if this method was used in the real world (which I can’t find proof of)

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      • spacesatan@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s an industry article here. They still raise the males that slip through for meat which sucks. But Germany has banned male chick culling so as far as I can tell it’s all hatcheries in Germany using this method, possibly all eggs sold in Germany.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m gonna start doubling my portions

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    • spacesatan@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Epic bacon bro, never heard that one before.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        hey, you’re not going to change anyones mind coming in here and telling me i’m wrong and chastise me for not being vegan. you don’t know me, but i guarantee that method will not change my mind.

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    • amzd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn bro, you let a vegan change your habits?

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This happens even with backyard chickens.

    Damn, I’m vegan and I didn’t even know that 😭

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    artificial insemination is a veterinary procedure. I don’t care to watch videos of live births or spaying and neutering, but that doesn’t make them bad.

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    • amzd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All your examples are either voluntary or in the best interest of the animal.

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        there is no higher benefit to any living things than to pass it’s generic material to a new generation. sterilization is not in their interest, but AI is.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The vast majority of that is through factory farming. It’s a cheap cop out from personal responsibility saying you only “buy local animal products.” You probably eat at restaurants or at friends’ houses without checking the source of those.

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