Quote (BrendanSchaub @ Aug 11 2019 06:58pm)
So, why no eggieweggs?
I understand the aversion to dairy from an ethical standpoint, but eggs... Not so much.
How do you feel about honey?
Another conundrum I've been struggling with is eating insects. Seems like good protein, acquired quickly with low environmental impact.
It seems to make sense from certain viewpoints, but I struggle with the sentience issue. I mean, I don't eat shellfish, and they're more than likely less sentient than most insects...
Personally, I don't do eggs because of the conditions that chickens are kept in and because, at least in factory egg production, they kill/grind up living male chicks because they won't ever produce eggs and they produce too little meat to make it profitable to keep/feed them into maturity. Now, I could certainly buy local, free-range eggs, but in so doing I think I would be contributing to a movement not in which we abandon the utilization of animals but instead one that does it in less unethical ways. Part of the challenge too is that even when supporting local free-range, you're allowing them to maintain the chicken/operation until the chicken gets killed off for meat anyway despite it not being your actual purchase. Local free-range is absolutely 100% better than factory farming, but I'd still rather be removed from the system altogether as much as I can.
I don't eat honey myself, because I don't each much of anything with honey to begin with, so that was very easy for me to "give up".