Q: Is a vegan diet obligatory even if the animals producing non-flesh products are kept in the best possible conditions? [For example if you keep chickens in your back yard in a luxurious coop, with tons of forage, and plentiful feed, and collect their eggs]
A: The majority of laying hens in the US live and die in cramped, crowded, and dirty conditions, often killing each other, going insane, and dying within months of their birth. This is an artificial scenario imposed by the brutal logic of the capitalist market, and I think it is clearly an immoral situation.
Under the best of scenarios it would seem like collecting the products of animals such as a hen would not be immoral. This does not address the situation of the vast majority of animals in industrialized countries however.
A: The majority of laying hens in the US live and die in cramped, crowded, and dirty conditions, often killing each other, going insane, and dying within months of their birth. This is an artificial scenario imposed by the brutal logic of the capitalist market, and I think it is clearly an immoral situation.
Under the best of scenarios it would seem like collecting the products of animals such as a hen would not be immoral. This does not address the situation of the vast majority of animals in industrialized countries however.
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