Posted on 12/04/2018 9:48:22 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Why Real Feminists Should Stop Eating Eggs Written by Michelle Kretzer | December 3, 2018
The human egg is tiny, undetectable to the human eye—and yet it’s a powerful, life-giving force that is still polarizing nations. Such an innocuous little ovum, yet it holds such an immense power to divide—and to divide people.
As the battle for control over women’s fertility and reproductive rights wages on, feminists are rising up against abuse and exploitation.
So what does it mean, then, when women take another female’s eggs from her without a thought and readily pay money for her eggs, knowing that she was imprisoned, her reproductive cycle was controlled and manipulated, and she was forced to bear young on someone else’s timetable?
Can we really call ourselves “feminists” if we eat eggs?
Some are quick to dismiss the suffering of female members of other species as unimportant. But let’s recall that human females, too, have been dismissed as not important, valuable, intelligent, or worthy of consideration. The justifications that people give for being unconcerned about chickens’ suffering and denying their basic rights are strikingly similar to the justifications that have been given for disregarding women’s suffering and denying their basic rights, all of which are false.
Chickens are inquisitive, and they can complete complex mental tasks, demonstrate self-control, worry about the future, and pass down cultural knowledge. In some aspects, their cognitive abilities exceed those of cats, dogs, and even primates. Like all animals (including humans), they love their families and value their own lives. They look out for their relatives and the other chickens in their group. They have complex social structures, well-developed communication skills, and distinct personalities, just as we do.
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Yep, eggs are about the most nourishing food you can eat and I too feel grateful to the hens for laying them.
What a dipspit...
you do realize a chicken produces eggs, regardless... Just because you wasted your youth following feminist male hating dogma, and now your eggs are dried up prunes doesn’t mean you are repressing a chickens sexuality by eating their non fertilized embryos....
What a moron
That bird would be safer with Colonel Sanders.
Don’t eggs go into cakes and pies? Are they supposed to give them up, too?
Stop exhaling CO 2. You are killing the planet
True, but I also notice plenty of eggs getting hard-boiled and dyed then, too.
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