I swear, I'm not just trying to ruin your day, but dairy can't really be produced without killing cows. Cows, like all mammals, need to have just given birth to lactate. In practice, this means cows must be impregnated…
I'm going to drop the age point. You're assigning more significance to the specific number than I intended. > Death in itself is not a tragedy. Living in poor conditions or past the point where you can function without…
> but most breeds I know of live 5-8 years. Yeah up to 12 was meant to communicate a rough upper bound, not typical lifespans. Same for the 4 years or regular egg production figure, upper bound. The important part is…
I don't want to get into a long debate, but even backyard chickens often have problems. For one, while the chickens aren't abused while they lay eggs, are they killed when they stop laying eggs regularly, after about 2…
You should go vegan. As a lifelong vegetarian, it will be easier than you think, since you're already used to resisting the temptation of foods with animal ingredients. While it's easy to imagine that dairy and egg…
Hypothesis: You don't actually care about the penguins any more than you care about the cows. However, you've just read something that was intentionally designed to make you feel sad for penguins. If you'd read a piece…
I swear, I'm not just trying to ruin your day, but dairy can't really be produced without killing cows. Cows, like all mammals, need to have just given birth to lactate. In practice, this means cows must be impregnated…
I'm going to drop the age point. You're assigning more significance to the specific number than I intended. > Death in itself is not a tragedy. Living in poor conditions or past the point where you can function without…
> but most breeds I know of live 5-8 years. Yeah up to 12 was meant to communicate a rough upper bound, not typical lifespans. Same for the 4 years or regular egg production figure, upper bound. The important part is…
I don't want to get into a long debate, but even backyard chickens often have problems. For one, while the chickens aren't abused while they lay eggs, are they killed when they stop laying eggs regularly, after about 2…
You should go vegan. As a lifelong vegetarian, it will be easier than you think, since you're already used to resisting the temptation of foods with animal ingredients. While it's easy to imagine that dairy and egg…
Hypothesis: You don't actually care about the penguins any more than you care about the cows. However, you've just read something that was intentionally designed to make you feel sad for penguins. If you'd read a piece…