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I don't think I'll be eating eggs any more!!

130 replies

chocolateequinox · 14/06/2020 09:13

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52838747

I'm already vegetarian so not eating eggs would be something I could do easily.

OP posts:
Lamahaha · 14/06/2020 12:14

[quote minniebinnie]@lamahaha why are you bringing religion into it? [/quote]
I'm not.
It;s just that some people regard being a vegetarian or vegan as a religion and point their fingers in horror if one of them eats an egg or something with gelatine or shock/horror a steak.

It's OK to eat all those things, you're not committing some kind of unforgivable sin, and yet non-veg people get really uptight about it.
Many people who are vegetarian or vegan really, really love meat and it's hard for them to go cold turkey forever. So nobody should shoot them if they occasionally eat this or that thing that they really, really like and miss.

I haven't eaten meat of any kind for 45 years, because the very thought of doing so disgusts me. But I always liked fish and do eat it occasionally. Because it isn't a religion.

Lamahaha · 14/06/2020 12:18

@Kljnmw3459

If you're vegetarian then I can see why it would put you off. But if you're eating meat anyways I don't see how this would make any difference.
I'm vegetarian and it doesn't put me off in the least. Eggs are not meat, even fertilised ones! Meat is that stuff that covers bones, with blood in it.
WeAllHaveWings · 14/06/2020 12:21

@WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo

Why are the weirdo frothers trying to get a pile on going and dishing insults out ?

It didn't occur to me they'd be cocks in with hens either...... especially those that are sold to supermarkets. OTOH the ones I get from my uncles allotment there's a good chance they'll be fertilised as he has a cockerel to keep his ladies happy.

It won't stop me eating eggs. I can't say I care much.

Some people don't like the thought of it and will be enough to put them off eating eggs and that's ok. It affects nobody but them, it doesn't make them anything Hmm

Honestly Hmm no need for the knobishness on here. It's not a good look. And no wonder we have such a problem with kids being bullies when they're supposedly adult parents behave the way they do. 🙄

🤣🤣🤣 I only see one playground bully name calling....Hmm
fuckinghellthisshit · 14/06/2020 12:22

DO those who are grossed out think that hens should be caged, kept away from cockerels and not allowed to display natural behaviour?
I sell free range eggs and let my our breeds brood and raise a hatch of chicks each year. Thew rest of the eggs we sell and eat. Happy natural hens.

CrystalTipped · 14/06/2020 12:22

I stopped eating eggs because I'm too wary of the link between egg eating and ovarian cancer. It was based on what happened to someone in my own life, but I read a study showed a link with regular egg consumption and ovarian cancer and testicular cancer. (Of course a well funded study refuting that and stating the opposite popped up soon afterwards.)

Scrowy · 14/06/2020 12:34

@LillianBland

Why would more children become vegetarian? I don't know any farm children that are vegetarian and they are very exposed to 'life on the farm'.

Growing up on a farm is the reason I became vegan. Very difficult to eat beef, when you buy a packet of crisps for the cows, on your way home from school. The cows used to rush over to the wall, waiting for me to come up the lane, with their treat, when they heard the school bus stop. There was no way I could eat any animal and try to minimise any use of animal products.

You must appreciate though LillianBland that your position on that is really very unusual for a farm child?
squeekums · 14/06/2020 12:34

Im shocked people are shocked this can happen.

What about all the chicks who are gassed/crushed/ground to death for the egg industry? Even lovely farms are disposing of the male chicks aren't they

Well its harsh but they have no value, they not even good pets as they can be extremely aggressive. You only need 1 to fertilize the flock.

We had a couple in our free range flock, they were great till they reached maturity, then they would attack anything that moved. We ended up having to cage them permanently till they died.
You cant give roosters away where i am.

Graciebobcat · 14/06/2020 12:37

What about all the chicks who are gassed/crushed/ground to death for the egg industry? Even lovely farms are disposing of the male chicks aren't they?

You seem to be confusing vegetarians with vegans.

Graciebobcat · 14/06/2020 12:42

I stopped eating eggs because I'm too wary of the link between egg eating and ovarian cancer

Why on earth would eating eggs cause ovarian cancer? It seems rather simplistic. Eggs, ovaries etc. Given the small number of women who get ovarian cancer and the billions of people consuming eggs around the world I think I'll take the risk, especially given that eggs are so good for you!

FiveFootTwoEyesOfBlue · 14/06/2020 12:46

Unless you're buying Clarence Court free range Braddock Whites duck eggs from Waitrose then I think you don't need to worry.

justasking111 · 14/06/2020 12:50

My girls different breeds all had their own cockerels to protect them, yep their eggs were fertilised but they had long healthy lives and died of old age, we buried them too on our small holding. Their eggs were lovely and we said thank you every time we collected them. In the winter they did not lay but still were fed.

squeekums · 14/06/2020 12:51

we’d end up with a lot more vegetarian children.

Doubt it.
You would have to pry chicken nuggets and chocolate milk out of dd cold dead hands lol
We live in the country, when people panic bought, it was fake meat and tofu left on our shelves, even when discounted, it stayed.
Meat literally almost doubled in price cos demand was so high. We could have chosen the vegan options or went without but people didnt, we paid up and went searching

Witchend · 14/06/2020 12:54

You would have to pry chicken nuggets and chocolate milk out of dd cold dead hands lol

And ds finds it fascinating (while eating an egg).

Crinkle77 · 14/06/2020 12:55

@CrystalTipped

I stopped eating eggs because I'm too wary of the link between egg eating and ovarian cancer. It was based on what happened to someone in my own life, but I read a study showed a link with regular egg consumption and ovarian cancer and testicular cancer. (Of course a well funded study refuting that and stating the opposite popped up soon afterwards.)
Surprise surprise it is a vegan health charity that is peddling this story.
UnaCorda · 14/06/2020 13:01

A spokeswoman for Clarence Court Farms said: "It is a feat of remarkably slim odds that a duckling has been hatched. But we acknowledge that it's not impossible."

Clearly not impossible when three ducklings hatched from a box of half a dozen eggs.

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 14/06/2020 13:02

I opened an egg I got from Sainsburys and there was a bag of Smarties inside. Shock Got a free mug too.

LillianBland · 14/06/2020 13:06

@justasking111

My girls different breeds all had their own cockerels to protect them, yep their eggs were fertilised but they had long healthy lives and died of old age, we buried them too on our small holding. Their eggs were lovely and we said thank you every time we collected them. In the winter they did not lay but still were fed.
Did your cockerels get on with each other, or were they kept separate? I remember my uncle keeping wee hens and he had to get rid of one of the two cockerels, because they were vicious towards each other.
SandieCheeks · 14/06/2020 13:06

@Graciebobcat

What about all the chicks who are gassed/crushed/ground to death for the egg industry? Even lovely farms are disposing of the male chicks aren't they?

You seem to be confusing vegetarians with vegans.

Why would you think that? I was replying to the poster that claimed eggs are collected without any harm or suffering, which is clearly not true.
museumum · 14/06/2020 13:22

I don’t consider myself completely farm ignorant but I am actually surprised at how many eggs seem to be fertilised judging by this thread. I don’t know anyone with hens who keeps a cockerel, and I assumed that bigger scale producers would keep the hens away from any cockerel they had for occasional breeding to keep their flock numbers steady.

Budapestpest · 14/06/2020 13:25

@Pinkblueberry

I don't understand the shock here. Chickens generally live on farms with cockerels - surely it's obvious then that some of the eggs will be fertilised? It's just common sense, isn't it?

Yes is is. We’ve reached a new level of naivety on this thread. It’s pretty basic sex education...

Come on, that’s not fair. Everyone here understands the birds and the bees. No need to be sarcastic. It’s just surprise from people who didn’t realise that there would be a cockerel mixing with female laying hens and have never considered the possibility that a chick could hatch from a supermarket egg
GreyHare · 14/06/2020 13:27

@LillianBland

Why would more children become vegetarian? I don't know any farm children that are vegetarian and they are very exposed to 'life on the farm'.

Growing up on a farm is the reason I became vegan. Very difficult to eat beef, when you buy a packet of crisps for the cows, on your way home from school. The cows used to rush over to the wall, waiting for me to come up the lane, with their treat, when they heard the school bus stop. There was no way I could eat any animal and try to minimise any use of animal products.

I grew up on a Dairy Farm, I used to feed Digestives to the cows, still eat beef and dairy produce.
SandieCheeks · 14/06/2020 13:28

Finding an embryo in a supermarket egg is one thing, but most people would realise that a chick hatching from one would be near impossible!
Eggs need to be incubated to hatch live chicks.

Pelleas · 14/06/2020 13:31

I am sceptical of the news story - not that the eggs might have been fertilised, but that they hatched. Surely it wouldn't have been warm enough for the duck foetus to survive while the eggs were being collected, taken to the shop, put on a shelf etc.

Anyway, it won't stop me eating eggs. I'm not a vegetarian so it would be somewhat hypocritical to worry about finding a fertilised egg when I will happily eat a roast duck or chicken.

justasking111 · 14/06/2020 14:20

No reason if incubated as they were why they would not hatch. I suspect she had more eggs in the incubator but candled them to see which were developing and binned those that did not.