For all Vegans..?!
I am a vegetarian myself.
If you were to own a farm with a few chicken and cows, would you drink their milk and have their eggs?
I'm not talking a lot of cows either, just a few who are hand milked. I guess this also has to do with health reasons because illnesses will not spread nearly as quick!
Answers: This is for all Vegans who don't eat food for cruelty reasons or if you were a Vegan.
I am a vegetarian myself.
If you were to own a farm with a few chicken and cows, would you drink their milk and have their eggs?
I'm not talking a lot of cows either, just a few who are hand milked. I guess this also has to do with health reasons because illnesses will not spread nearly as quick!
The only way I'd eat the milk and eggs is if I had no other choices to healthily subsist on. In places in the world as well as other time periods this was exactly the case.
Where I live now if I had a farm I'd still eat vegan. Milk is a major mucus causing substance with hormones meant to make baby cows grow big but can cause various cancers in humans. Eggs I personally don't like and having a small farm like that increases the risks of them being fertilized.
What I would do in such an instance is to separate and not breed the cows as well as the chickens. I might as one suggested feed back the eggs to the chickens or feed them to my dog whom I typically feed vegan, till they die of a natural death.
Good question at any rate which causes people to think.
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No, I would not. I would not breed the cows in the first place. No pregnancy, no milk.
I read that at Farm Sanctuary, they hard boil the eggs the hens lay and feed them back to the chickens. I don't know what I would do with the eggs, but I certainly would not eat them.
But as I am a city girl, this question is rather moot. I would never own a farm.
I wouldn't drink the milk or eat the eggs because I just don't like them. If I had some machine to turn the milk into cheese or butter I may use it but it's highly doubtful. I really don't want to put anything "animal" in my body ever again.
My veganism began for animal cruelty/AR reasons but now it's developed also into me being more health-minded. I had terrible high-blood pressure when I ate animal foods and I've benefitted greatly from my vegan diet. I really wouldn't want to give that up to eat an egg here or there.
Well, they would no longer be vegans, regardless of how well the chickens were kept.
We have chickens and cows, and plenty of vegan guests. I would never consider offering them milk or eggs. I'm veggie and would not breed from our cows, what would i do with the off-spring ? Cows milk is for calves.
I eat the eggs because I know they are not fertilised and I know the chickens will just abandon them and they will go rotten. If i was in ANY doubt about this I would not eat them. This decision is after observing chickens for a long time. I guess if i lost access to these eggs I'd become vegan.
Even cows and chickens kept under the very best conditions have a shorter lifespan when forced to produce for our consumption.
It's a great trend right now for folks close enough to a farm with cows to lease one so they can have fresh dairy. Many believe this to be totally fine. The average life span of a free cow is over 20 years. The average life span of a free range dairy cow is half that. The average life span of a factory farm cow is 2-3 years.
Even the free range dairy cow will end up at the slaughter house when it can no longer produce milk. Even a free range dairy cow has its offspring taken from it so it can produce more.
Factor in that science is on the side of vegans. Dairy is not good for us.
I was severely lactose intolerant before I went vegan. Two years later, I'm guessing it hasn't gotten better, so no on the milk. And no on the eggs, too -- they have too much cholesterol.
I would not personally. I don't have the same ethical issues with animals kept in good conditions for personal use, but it's still not ideal. Cows have to give birth to give milk; what would you do with the offspring? Cows have to give birth more often than is natural in order to give milk continuously; would you be artificially inseminating your cows before they were ready to be pregnant again? Or would you be willing to keep a non-producing cow as a treasured pet? Same sorts of issues with chickens. What would you do with them when they stop laying? I have thought about getting a couple of rescue hens and giving them a good home, but I still wouldn't eat their eggs because I don't consider them food (believe it or not, most vegans are not constantly looking for loopholes to get back the foods we're "missing.") I think I'd be OK with giving the eggs away to people who would otherwise be buying grocery store eggs. It would seem like the positives would outweigh the negatives at that point. Cows are much tougher to reconcile because of having to breed them; I wouldn't be willing to force a cow to breed any more than I'd be willing to drink milk intended for her offspring.
I would not use the milk. It's not natural for cows to produce milk for anyone but their calves. Unless I kept knocking the cow up and taking her babies away she would not produce milk, and it's just cruel to do something like that.
As for eggs, yes I use my chicken's eggs. I have pet chickens: Henny Penny, Money Penny, Rufus and Hera. They produce eggs and if I don't do anything with them they just go rotten and step on them and make a mess of their coop. They can't hatch into chicks because I don't have a rooster. My chickens go in and out of their coop as they please and have 12 acres of grass to play in and also come in the house. They're treated just like my dogs and are good pets that I wouldn't kill just because they can't lay eggs. That's sickening. I hatched Rufus since she was a egg when I had a rooster and the others I bought as chicks.
They make eggs on their own and lay two a day (except for Hera who is old and stopped laying). I bake with them, but I don't eat them plain because the taste of eggs is just nasty.