All right I'm convinced, we should be eating fetuses
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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As thought emporium pointed out, egg based artificial meat is a pretty good idea.
Yeah, but the fetus can eventually be used for slave labor, including the production of more slaves. The male chicks are more useful being shredded for cheap slave fodder. If we generate enough value for our masters in this way, they'll let us join them. Blessed be the fruit.
be used for slave labor, including the production of more slaves.
That's the theory they had. Turns out humans don't breed that well in captivity. In practice the birth rate keeps dropping and is now way below replacement rates.
I know you're going for the joke, but it's way to close to why a lot of these people want to outlaw reproductive healthcare.
In reality, humans have more children in bad circumstances, and less when we're educated, have life options, don't need children to work as labor for the family, don't need them to provide for us when we get old, and have confidence that they'll survive.
In bad times we have a lot of children for better odds and more hands to do work, and in good times we have fewer to concentrate our resources on.
It's why they want to ban reproductive healthcare and tank the economy: in 20 years there'll be a wave of economic demand and labor supply. That the individual will be broke, have no future, and no education is irrelevant.
In bad times we have a lot of children for better odds and more hands to do work,
That used to be true until children were not allowed to work anymore. They're quietly trying to roll that child labor of course.
in 20 years there’ll be a wave of economic demand and labor supply.
By that time, people are competing against humanoid robots and office AI to see who can do the job the cheapest. Humans are in the end not going to win that race. Robots and AI are a bit silly now but are getting better and cheaper quickly. There will buy a lot of labor supply, but with most people in a trailer park trash existence there won't be that much demand.
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Laws preventing all forms of chick culling exist in Germany, France, and Luxembourg. Switzerland and Austria forbid shredding but allowing gasing male chicks (Austrians really love their gas chambers). There are ongoing discussions about forbidding the practice in most of Western Europe (AFAIK only the UK doesn't have ongoing discussions).
Is that really a good thing for the animals though? Instead of being killed right away, they will suffer a short miserable life, then be killed.
In Germany the eggs are tested early on the incubation period and if they are male, they are never hatched.
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While I absolutely agree with the sentiment here, I doubt it'd convince anyone remotely "pro-life" - because one's "just a chicken", and the other's human.
I mean Christ, if you can't get them to sympathise with the life carrying the fetus, you're not gonna succeed with a random chicken's.
Memes like these exist not to change anyone's mind, but for pseudo intellectuals to stroke each other over.
Yeah, I get the impression that the thing that drives most pro-lifers is religion (or their twisted interpretation thereof), not compassion. And as far as I'm aware, their religion doesn't consider animals to even have souls but rather sees them as tools for humankind to use, provided to us.
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It's funny the amount of downvotes every single comment on this thread has.
There are still religious folks on Lemmy, I imagine.
I think there is a thing to only create female chicken now so they won't have to kill 50 percent of them.
Shredding alive for... Eggs? 🤔
Edit: appreciate the replies! I actually already knew that, I think the verbage just threw me off. Poor chickies
Basically, male chicks are worthless on egg farms. They all get put into a macerator to be disposed of. The rate at which they do this is unfathomable at a single farm alone.
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Male chicks are largely considered a waste-product of the poultry industry, you don't need many males to maintain the population. It's cheaper and easier to identify them once they hatch, at which point they have no economic value and so are killed.
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