Hello everyone! Today’s subject is starting
to get more and more attention within both
the feminist and the vegan community, that
is the sexism involved in the production of
animal products. At first glance, I know this
sounds like a strange connection, but let’s
take a closer look.
Meat, dairy, and eggs, at their very core,
are an exploitation of the female reproductive
system. With meat, female cows, pigs, chickens,
and turkeys are bred to exhaustion through
artificial insemination so that their babies
can be raised for meat. When we think about
it, forcing a mother to have a baby so that
her child can be used as a commodity is a
violation of both nature and a commitment
to feminism.
Unfortunately, the dairy and egg industries
are worse. In the production of both milk
and eggs, females are again forcibly impregnated.
When a dairy cow or an egg hen have their
children, those babies are taken away. If
her baby is male, he is killed immediately
since no money can be made by keeping him
alive. If her baby is female, she is doomed
to the same cycle of forced breeding as her
mother. A mother cow has only a moment with
her child before her baby is taken from her.
Her baby would otherwise drink her milk, but
that milk is more profitable to sell to humans.
A mother hen never meets her children.
Another quick note on the hens is that, without
human involvement, a typical hen would lay
17 eggs per year. However after genetic manipulation,
that same hen lays between 200 and 300 eggs
in a year. An egg is the equivalent to a chicken’s
period. A period. Every. Day.
Any dollar spent at a restaurant or a grocery
store on meat, eggs, or dairy funds this.
Animal products simply cannot exist without
the female reproductive system.
So thank you for honoring your mother and
everyone else’s by going vegan forever.
