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Why Real Feminists Should Stop Eating Eggs
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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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The writer should quit this nonsense and begin writing satire instead......................./s
1 posted on 12/04/2018 9:48:22 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
They look out for their relatives and the other chickens in their group.

I can tell you from experience, that statement is a flat lie. A wounded or sick chicken needs to be isolated from the flock or the other chickens will kill it.

2 posted on 12/04/2018 9:51:50 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Sub-Driver

the search for metaphor that ends in insanity.


3 posted on 12/04/2018 9:52:21 AM PST by bioqubit (bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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To: Sub-Driver

“As the battle for control over women’s fertility and reproductive rights wages on...”

???

What in the wide, wide world of sports is this idiot babbling about?

And shouldn’t that be “rages” on? Wow. What a dunce.


4 posted on 12/04/2018 9:53:18 AM PST by KyCats
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To: Sub-Driver

deranged


5 posted on 12/04/2018 9:54:10 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey PETA,
Up your cloaca!


6 posted on 12/04/2018 9:55:40 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Human abortion? That would be double-plus good.
Eating chicken eggs? That would be a crime against humanity.


7 posted on 12/04/2018 9:56:44 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: All

How do we realistically deal with people this divorced from reality?


8 posted on 12/04/2018 9:57:44 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Sub-Driver

Aldi has them on sale....$.79.


9 posted on 12/04/2018 10:00:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: KyCats

She means she wants contraceptives and abortions at no cost to her.


10 posted on 12/04/2018 10:01:59 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wack. These people are.


11 posted on 12/04/2018 10:02:20 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (XY)
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To: KyCats

“Wages on” is probably how they actually pronounce the phrase. So spelling “rages” that way is natural for them.


12 posted on 12/04/2018 10:02:57 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Tax-chick

In the case of chickens the answer is easy. No rooster. Ladies, take a hint.


13 posted on 12/04/2018 10:03:21 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Excellent point.


14 posted on 12/04/2018 10:03:50 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: wbarmy

They are trying to use “wage” — a transitive verb — as an intransitive verb.


15 posted on 12/04/2018 10:04:03 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Go to any grocery store and you’ll see eggs by the scores of dozens. If all of those were fertile and hatched out, what would we do with all the chickens?

I wonder what her position is on abortion.


16 posted on 12/04/2018 10:04:06 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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i don't think even the damnable Lying Leftist Fake Stream Enemedia™ pays attention to these idiots anymore ...
17 posted on 12/04/2018 10:04:38 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Institutionalize or euthanize the. No other way.


18 posted on 12/04/2018 10:06:29 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Really? Of all of things in this world that need fixing, this is the best PETA has? How sad...


19 posted on 12/04/2018 10:06:40 AM PST by econjack
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

“Go to any grocery store and you’ll see eggs by the scores of dozens. If all of those were fertile and hatched out, what would we do with all the chickens? I wonder what her position is on abortion.”

perhaps more importantly in such a case, what’s her position on chicken abortion ...


20 posted on 12/04/2018 10:06:44 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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