As well as vacuum, dust, clean bathrooms, cook and do minor repairs.
Why can't moles eat slugs????
If one is avoiding eggs for ethical rather than nutrition reasons, I can reassure a person. Commercial eggs are sterile unfertilized eggs from hens without a rooster - they would never make a baby chicken. The "cage free" ones are raised relatively humanely.
That's good to know. One less thing to feel guilty about!
"The "cage free" ones are raised relatively humanely."
I'm not sure that's really true. It means they aren't in battery cages, which is a big improvement, but generally they're "warehoused". Like the videos of turkeys before Thanksgiving, all milling around in a big building. Even the "free-range" label can be mis-leading. It means they have "access" to an area not inside a building. Not how big it is, whether there's anything out there but concrete, and so on. I look for Certified Humane;
http://www.certifiedhumane.org/
but have issues even with that. Yes, color me bleeding heart.
It may be that I am way too concerned about this issue, because my chickens have free range rights :). They just always look so very busy with the duties of chickenhood, and they travel all day long. I hate to think of them being cooped up (sic) all the time, especially watching them all pile out in the morning, and scatter in their own groups to that far corners of their world.
Even if I can't always find the eggs *G*.
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Thanks for the link to certified humane, catmad. I'll look at the site later, when I get home.
That is why I used the "relatively" - commercially raised meat, dairy and eggs will always be "commercially raised". When I raised chickens, they all had names and and a pretty easy life. But since I have a problem with eating anything that had a name, they didn't exactly earn their keep and put meat on the table. So a poor commercially raised mass produced chicken usually had to die to support my chickens hedonistic life style.
*GRIN* gotcha :)