hey capitalism, how are you doing?
hey capitalism, how are you doing?
yeah..
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Don't know about anyone else, but I was thinking they are an excellent, versatile and easily prepared protein source, dense with nutrients, which does not involve the taking of a life.
Edit: I'd been thinking of dumping social media entirely, due to the discouraging number of trolls, self-righteous moralists, snarks and ideologues, but thought it would be reddit that went -- it really has become depressing to consider the future if redditors are indicative. Guess it's not just reddit, mmm?
For the amusement of folk jumping to firm conclusions, I have raised chickens, lived on the Indian subcontinent (and you left out the fate of the Eid cows among Muslims -- the streets run with blood), eat a lot of beans, and will remember in future that it is wisest to stick to my own company rather than set off people who don't think I know how to use a search engine.
Tata.
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There is definitely less chickens being killed per gram of protein of egg compared to meat so I don't want to attack you, but there are a lot of chickens being killed because of how the industry is organised. I googled this for you:
"Typically, layer hens are killed after about a year of laying due to a decrease in their productivity. Because these hens are raised as a group with other birds of the same age, productivity can be evaluated on a group basis and not based on the individual bird. For this reason, even if an individual bird is still producing well they may still be culled simply because their cohort of hens has dropped in productivity.
... there are two different kinds of chickens: those raised for their meat and those raised to produce eggs. In chickens raised for meat, also known as “broiler” chickens, there is no differentiation based on sex, as these chickens are not generally allowed to live long enough to produce eggs. When it comes to birds raised for laying eggs, male chicks are unable to lay eggs, so serve no purpose in the industrial system that has produced them. Male chicks are routinely killed before they can grow to be more than a few days old." (https://www.farmforward.com/issues/animal-welfare/chick-culling/)
If you'd like to take less life's, consider adding beans to your diet.
Here is another article: Eat Beans, Not Beings—10 Reasons to Stock Up on This Superfood https://www.peta2.com/lifestyle/beans/
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They also have environmentally friendly packaging.
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Uh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
We kill like 7 billion chicks annually because they are male and therefore can’t produce eggs.
I agree with you on the other points, but our farming industry is bonkers and full of killing.
Perhaps if you only buy your eggs from a local farmer or produce them yourself, but due to capitalism that’s not an option for every person
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you're going to be disappointed with the whole doesn't involve taking a life thing, at least I hope you will be.
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Yup, we kill billions of bacteria when we cook those delicious gametes.
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I'm so fucking sick of hearing about egg prices. It's the least important thing happening in this dumpster fire of a country right now. I still eat eggs everyday by the way. It costs like $2 more each week. Oh no.
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It's important because it's the central promise of our system. Capitalism/Liberal Democracy/Whatever, it doesn't promise equality, or world peace, or spiritual enlightenment: It promises that you can buy cheap consumer crap, and now it can't even deliver that.
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But hey! We aren't talking about innocents now being slaughtered by our operations halfway across the world (again)... almost like a recurring theme...
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The media is just playing to the electorate there, I'm afraid.
I watched the YouTube stream of a recent Maryland townhall: dark blue state, all Democrat Representatives and Senators speaking and taking questions, hosted by a Democrat county executive. Someone got up and confronted them about the immigrants abducted by ICE being held in Baltimore Harbor and not allowed to see their lawyers. Multiple people in the live chat started complaining that they weren't discussing real issues like Social Security and Medicare. ... Even though they had discussed it earlier. Americans are fundamentally selfish.
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"I didn't even want those eggs in the first place and besides, they're probably sour."
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Protein replacement for poor people who could not afford meat. I don’t know what to recommend now. No one wants to live on beans, that’s misery personified.
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What's wrong with beans and lentils?
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They're disgusting, not a source of all amino acids and give you diarrhea. Fuck em!
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I just posted this link on another comment but the content validates me being considered a spammer imho
Eat Beans, Not Beings—10 Reasons to Stock Up on This Superfood https://www.peta2.com/lifestyle/beans/
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Yeah war on eggs!! You're a traitor if you eat eggs!!!
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The amount of manufactured consent is too damn high!
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Yep eggs are cheap because chickens shit them out profusely. It only takes a small flock of 4+ birds to make more than a family needs. I know several people with backyard coops and pens who have more eggs than they need, giving them away.
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tl;dr: Is this meant to normalize higher egg prices?
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Link to the actual article. It's a good read, and in no way does it try to justify the raise in egg prices. It talks about the history of chicken and egg farming in the 20th century, the supply chain needed to bring as many eggs to consumers, and is critical of how the growing demand led to factory farming and horrible conditions for the chickens.
For such a long article it’s really disappointing they didn’t at all go into how chicken farmers themselves are ratfucked by contracts with processing plants and live below the poverty line if they don’t have a second job.
I am not all that knowledgeable on the US egg industry, but wouldn't this mainly just the small scale farmers that would be struggling?
As it mentioned in the article, the large companies will have the leverage to raise the prices (article describes it as cartelization). And are then encouraged to keep the scale with compensation and I guess subsidies.
Only female chickens makes egg. Male baby chickens gets throw in the meat grinder alive.
https://youtu.be/udSiluTAOaQ?t=136
Praise to the EU. Male chicken shredding has been outlawed since 2022!
Edit: I was pattially wrong about this. The ban is only in effect in some of the members. Namely: Germany, France, Italy Luxemberg and Austria The EU itself is still in the process of deciding on such a law.
Get a load of this nerd READING like a massive NERD. Just join the rest of us free thinkers in judging by the cover.
that's capitalism for ya
thank god you were here to defend it by pointing out the details about how the title is really correct not just sort of correct
Nice ad hominem.
The screenshot puts the title of the article out of context, and incorrectly frames The Atlantic as defending late stage capitalism. The body of the article is a review of the history of egg farming.