Informative Tumblr Post Aims To Debunk Misconceptions About Chickens And Eggs

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mattstaff
Jul 28, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

We can always count on the wonderful and wandering minds of the Tumblr world to shine some light on new topics that people might otherwise be unknowingly holding misconceptions about. Clearly, this Tumblr thread is trying to break down the assumptions that are being held about chickens and eggs, and local farming in general. Always interesting to hear different sides of the story. Check out some more tweets and gems to make the day more tolerable over here.

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  • 01
    Font - despazito Follow vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs...why despazito Follow people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens
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    Font - feminist-james This is not true. 1) honeybees do not produce "extra honey." And beekeepers don't take some of the honey, they take all of it. 2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens. spoonfulofwhoopass Follow Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading
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    Font - Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don't take all of it. But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed sh
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    Font - I know there's an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation. If you're this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way). But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Ple
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    Font - Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and l'll be the first to admit it's criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this. Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling. THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS Many people take to raising their own hens because of America's immoral treatme
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    Font - simplelittlepaperyanon Follow Yeah, as someone who like... lives on a chicken and duck farm... Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs! Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not... By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that b ch to the flashlight and tell if there's a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused! kuzuryuu-course Also, if
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    Font - cluckbuck7 Follow Support local farms! Most grocery stores carry eggs from small, local farms that give hens acres of open pasture and healthier housing. jheselbraum Follow Also, that "selectively bred to lay eggs more often" thing? Literally just comes from feeding the chickens every day. The chicken's ancestors would only lay an egg when there was abundant food, so people started feeding them every day to get more eggs. That's it.
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