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[-] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Good question :)

  1. Most people imagine only female chickens which means the male chicks are killed soon after birth which is unethical

  2. Chickens eat their non fertilized eggs to recoup the nutrients it takes to lay them so stealing them has negative consequences for their health (eg fragile bones) causing which is unethical

  3. The idea itself that you can take something from someone else just because you are stronger or smarter and they can’t stop you is the mindset of an oppressor or a bully and is inherently unethical

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago
  1. Is easily fixed by just not killing the male chickens
  2. Is easily fixed by giving your chickens nutritionally balanced food
[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago
[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

I agree with you on point three, so I didn't list a response.

1 is easily fixed

Then why does everyone I know who keeps chickens in their backyard only have female chickens?

[-] axus@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

The animals are also guilty of #3 , but two wrongs don't make a right

Yea, what animals do is not considered ethical in plenty of cases. We wouldn’t kill someone else’s baby because “lions do infanticide too” right :p

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone -1 points 18 hours ago
  1. has nothing to do with the ethics of killing
  2. again, the same (especially if they are kept in good nutrition, shells returned, etc.)
  3. they aren't a person, and that would make all of nature existing unethical
[-] zeezee@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago

they aren't a person, and that would make all of nature existing unethical

are you a person? ethics and morality are human concepts..

arguing that eating meat isn't unethical because it happens in "nature" is like arguing you should be allowed to rape people because ducks do it...

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