yeah I know they're not vegan, but the spirit of veganism is surely to avoid harming or exploiting animals? Taking eggs from animals that don't need them, would lay them anyway, and who have in addition been saved from slaughter and a miserable battery farm existence, couldn't be classed as exploitation or harm.
Chickens lay an egg a day till they have a 'clutch' to hatch out - they wouldn't miss a couple of eggs from that clutch, especially if you replace them with china eggs. They're not intelligent enough to anticipate babies and then be disappointed when they don't get any - so where's the harm?
Not that I'd eat eggs anyway - yukky concept - but it does no harm if it's a rescue chicken IMO (whereas buying new chooks specially for free range eggs would of course involve breeding and culling males in the first place)
These ex-battery chickens are desperately in need of good homes - I'd love some myself if I had more room - but if I had to choose between binning their surplus eggs or eating them I guess I'd eat them if it didn't nauseate me.
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