Vegetarian Star

PETA’s Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs Bruce Friedrich recently battled against some members of the debate team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. The MIT event discussed the ethics of eating meat.

Often during this type of conversation, the idea is brought up as to whether or not it’s possible to have “humane” animal products. While meat is pretty much ruled out, certain foods that don’t involve the animal’s flesh, such as eggs and dairy are often used in the argument that an omnivore can eat humanely.

Friedrich says this can only be done with one animal product. But you’ll never find this product in the stores.

“Yeah, if you rescue a chicken,” was Friedrich’s response when asked by MIT’s The Tech if humane animal products were possible. “But that is literally 0 percent of the eggs in grocery stores. All of the eggs commercially available are where the males are tossed alive into grinders because they are a different breed. Even in places like Polyface farms, the animals are treated fine on the farms, but the animals are brought from the same breeders where the males are tossed into the grinders and when their egg production decreases, they have their throats slit open while they are completely conscious.”

“The only non-vegan product that could be done acceptably is eggs. With milk, you are talking about manipulating an animal’s reproductive function, taking their babies away from them and slaughtering the animals at a fraction of their natural life span. All of that involves unnecessary suffering on the part of the animal.”

Are there any vegans out there who would feel comfortable being egg-eating omnivores if they sourced eggs from the rescued hen kept in their backyard?

Photo: Helen Wilkinson/Creative Commons

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