They’re usually shredded alive almost immediately because they’re seen as “waste” since they don’t lay eggs
For some more context:
- littlecolt ( @littlecolt@lemm.ee ) 46•3 months ago
I have been seeing a lot of animal abuse posts on here lately. I hadn’t noticed 196 being like that in the past on here or Reddit. Is there a trend toward that for this community in general? I’m well aware of how fucked the industry is, but I also don’t sub to this community for that. I am here for little gay people shit posting in my phone. These just make me sad. I can’t personally do anything to stop this. I don’t want to unsub, and there’s not a great way to filter, unless it’s all the same OP? :(
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English24•3 months ago
You can go vegan and stop giving these people money
- littlecolt ( @littlecolt@lemm.ee ) 10•3 months ago
Similar to recycling, the impact is small. There must be large systemic change. My adoption of a vegan diet, or my diligent recycling of aluminum and plastic, is a drop in the bucket.
- threeduck ( @threeduck@aussie.zone ) 10•3 months ago
Couldn’t that logic be used against literally any good action? Like giving $100,000 to a malaria charity isn’t going to stop malaria. If everyone thought like vegans, the world would be vegan, the climate crisis would almost entirely be averted, rivers swimmable, billions of animal lives saved each year.
If during your supermarket shop, you use vegan recipes instead, you’ll be one of those dominos. You could be the systemic change!
The issue is how then do you get that systematic change? Governments are going to be extremely hard to convince to do anything as along as people expect to consume animal products en mass. It’s going to have to start with individual action until systematic change is palatable
And with systematic action, it’s still going to have to involve change in consumption in the end. Factory farming is pretty much the only thing that scales. Want to avoid it? We’re going to need to see great drops in production and in turn consumption
The impacts of people taking action do add up. For instance, in Germany there’s been declines in per capita meat consumption over the past decade
In 2011, Germans ate 138 pounds of meat each year. Today, it’s 121 pounds — a 12.3 percent decline. And much of that decline took place in the last few years, a time period when grocery sales of plant-based food nearly doubled.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English6•3 months ago
Yeah, you should go vegan, and also post depressing memes on 196 that make all the carnists feel guilty. That’ll have a bigger impact.
- thatsTheCatch ( @thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz ) 11•3 months ago
Pretty sure it’s mostly the one poster
- fracture [he/him] ( @fracture@beehaw.org ) 5•3 months ago
yeah i feel you. i don’t think this would be better even if i were vegan (i’m not bc i think i would starve due to a number of dietary restrictions /allergies, but i cycle in the vegan food i can)
- CubitOom ( @CubitOom@infosec.pub ) English21•3 months ago
I raised mine to roosters. I got a grey cock, a brown cock, and the biggest is my black cock.
- PeteBauxigeg ( @PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee ) 9•3 months ago
Can’t win the argument? Have you tried posting content likely to upset to argue your case in communities unrelated to your cause?
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196 is a meme/miscellaneous community. This is a meme ergo fits within the community. Pretty much the only rule of this community is “if you visit the community you must post” besides rules like no transphobia, racism, etc.
- Daxtron2 ( @Daxtron2@startrek.website ) 11•3 months ago
Don’t worry, that person is a “devils advocate” for Israel, Russia, and Trump so their opinion doesn’t matter here.
Oh fun skimming through their comments shows them also dissmising climate change effects too. Comments downplaying a senario of +5°C average temperature increase
- Daxtron2 ( @Daxtron2@startrek.website ) 3•3 months ago
Classic
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 8•3 months ago
Chicken egg farmers sell eggs.
They don’t hatch those eggs.
- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 7•3 months ago
i dont mind
- jabathekek ( @jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ) 6•3 months ago
Lil’ nuggets => McNuggets
- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) 6•3 months ago
Vegans when you don’t listen to them
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English6•3 months ago
Never understood this. Why not raise the roosters for their meat and feathers and leave the hens for laying eggs?
The hens are bred for laying as much eggs as possible, on the cost of meat production. this means, that it isn’t profitable to raise them, just to get some meat, when you can raise other chicken breads to get twice the amount of meat.
- Fugtig Fisk ( @JohnOliver@feddit.dk ) 4•3 months ago
I am guessing, only based on the fact that the immorally fast growing chickens only make a few more cents, that they are not profitable.
Also I am not sure if roosters can be kept together past a certain point maybe?
- Uriel238 [all pronouns] ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•3 months ago
I’d think they could genetically engineer the egg layers to only produce males in certain conditions (such as when they’re incubated at a higher temperature), then only breed males when they need more roosters.
OR, if sex is selected by sperm type (as with humans) artificially inseminate the hens.
I suspect there are dozens of valid technical solutions that are cost effective and would allow them to not shred male chicks.
They don’t scale super well at the moment. See my comment elsewhere about just that
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 2•3 months ago
You’re thinking about turtles
- Ragnarok314159 ( @Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ) 1•3 months ago
And if we crossbreed chickens with turtles, they might become ninjas or something worse.
- Uriel238 [all pronouns] ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•3 months ago
And why not think about turtles? I ask. 🐢
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 3•3 months ago
Did they use the chickens for something? I guess cat food or something like that would be useful.
- Mio ( @Mio@feddit.nu ) 2•3 months ago
I am just think that for a human to be a man or woman, then there is a 50 % chance. I see no reason for it to be different for chickens…