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What the News on the End of Male Chick Culling Reveals About Consumers

June 12, 2016 by The Ant's Meow in Vegan, Compassion for Animals

It’s eye-opening how the news of male chick culling coming to an end in 2020 (at least among 95% of egg producers in the U.S.) has horrified people. Just read people’s reactions and comments to this news on social media. For most people, the practice of male chick culling is breaking news alone. It just goes to show how many people are still in the dark about the horrors of the meat, dairy and egg industry. 

Grinding, gassing and suffocating male chicks to death is disgustingly cruel, but it’s also just a fraction of the violent and sadistic abuse, mistreatment and deaths that billions of farmed animals endure every day—from the moment their born, to the moment their slaughtered. 

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Full, Half or No Churro? Blurred Lines in Veganism

June 05, 2016 by The Ant's Meow in Vegan, Compassion for Animals

My mom is my biggest supporter. Although she’s not vegan, and doesn’t always share my view on animals, she has always shown her support.

However, we were at Disneyland recently and when I refused to eat half a churro, she said something that struck me, “Not eating half a churro isn’t going to save an animal’s life.”

So if I ate only half a churro, does that make me less guilty than if I were to eat a whole churro? Does that make me less guilty that maybe only one egg was used, versus two? 

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June 05, 2016 /The Ant's Meow
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