Eggs and parkrun

[Satsumaeater]

Gosh my second AIBU thread in a week. I was considering putting this in chat instead but will leave it here. Parkrun getting it in the neck again - last time it was about photos and now eggs. They have just announced that Happy Eggs are a new sponsor of parkrun and there is a lot of disquiet about it.

I always seek out free range eggs. I had no idea the welfare standards were so poor for chickens and am a bit shocked as to what happens to male chickens. I don't know what I thought happened to them, I guess I thought they were fattened up and we eat them.

I don't buy eggs very often because I'm not a baker and neither DH nor DS like them. But I think if I do in future I will be looking a lot more closely at welfare standards.

YABU for putting it in AIBU instead of Chat because it's not an AIBU.

I don't understand why slaughtering male chicks when they are newly hatched is worse than when they are 12 weeks old so we can eat them. Newly hatched chicks don't have any idea whats happening to them, and its quick.

Every single commercial egg supplier I know of (except for one associated with a Buddhist temple that doesn’t) does this. It’s standard industry practice.

This is how eggs are produced. At least they're not chucking the chicks through a wood chipper by the basket full. People need to fucking educate themselves about where their food comes from.

Yes it's not nice. That's what I have my own chickens.

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