• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So have a few hens out back eating all the ticks in the yard and supplying me with eggs is hurting the environment in a way that is terrible? I’d have to look more into that, but really they surely can’t be as gaseous as cows.

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      8 months ago

      Well, there are still valid ethical and health reasons not to eat their eggs. Chicken feed always contains soy from rainforest-areas as well. But if your backyard eggs are the only animal products you use, then I’d say that you’re already doing pretty good.

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        8 months ago

        I used to have them when I lived in an area that didn’t care. Was hoping to go back to having them when I retire one day. Didn’t expect to hear they were a bad choice. Thanks for the response