Category Archives: ‘Happy’ exploitation

Not ‘chicken’. Chickens. Individuals.

Posted on July 29, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

The word ‘chicken’ has come to represent a cooking ingredient. Despite – or perhaps because of – a world where information has never been easier to discover, those with vested interest in making money from using animals, and the powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Advocacy | Tagged advertising, chicken, chickens, commodities, consumer demand, freedom, harm, humane, infants, life, mortuary, resources, rights, sentience, slaughter, truth, veganism, victims, violence, welfare | 2 Comments

Hens and puppy mills – an analogy

Posted on May 8, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Not a day goes by that I fail to see someone contradicting a post that explains – often at some length – that there is no such thing as a humane egg. As soon as there’s a post about eggs, … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Chickens and eggs | Tagged abolition, advocacy, backyard, chickens, Chickens and eggs, commodification, commodities, consumer demand, dogs, egg-laying hens, ethics, harm, health, hens, humane, motherhood, puppy farms, puppy mills, reproduction, resources, rights, selective breeding, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, victims | 25 Comments

Translations of common expressions: ‘Grass-fed lamb, half price!’

Posted on April 5, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

This blog’s title was a promotion by a supermarket, heard in a TV ad break. With a great deal encapsulated in very few words, it’s a cynical bit of mind-bending although there was a time I wouldn’t have realised; that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Awakening to veganism, consumer demand, Harm reduction, welfare | Tagged bargain, breast feeding, cheap, chickens, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, decency, easter lamb, grass-fed, harm, humane, milk, resources, rights, sentience, slaughter, victims, violence | 2 Comments

The price of a life

Posted on January 4, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

There are many people who will tell us, ‘I love animals and I think they should be treated humanely but I eat meat’ and will see no irony in a declaration that they have possibly never even stopped to consider. … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Advocacy | Tagged awakening, chickens, commodification, consumer demand, harm, humane, resources, sentience, slaughter, vegan, veganism, violence | 6 Comments

The value of honesty – thoughts

Posted on November 14, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Imagine you are face to face with two people. They are both keen for you to see things their way, but there’s a key difference between them. Person 1 Although you’re not exactly sure how they do it (because they … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Awakening to veganism | Tagged Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, harm, health, milk, resources, sentience, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 6 Comments

Goats and dairy: all we need to know

Posted on November 9, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Just as a reminder, dairy is the impregnation of female mammals followed by the removal of their infants so that the lactation their bodies produce for these infants may be pumped out and sold for use by humans. That is … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, dairy | Tagged cheese, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, ethics, harm, health, milk, sentience, slaughter, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 4 Comments

In a nutshell: why all egg use is inhumane

Posted on September 6, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

All links checked and updated 16/02/2023 The problems faced by all egg-laying hens are not caused by their environment, but by the very bodies that have been created by humans. Their bodies are the result of years of selective breeding … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Chickens and eggs, In a nutshell | Tagged backyard, chickens, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, free range, harm, health, hens, humane, prisons, resources, sanctuary, sentience, slaughter, vegan, victims | 34 Comments

‘I think animals should be humanely treated’

Posted on July 10, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

It’s what everyone says. They say it while eating the flesh of their defenceless victims, drinking the breast milk they made for their infants, using the eggs they laid because humans have corrupted their genes and selectively bred them until … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Awakening to veganism | Tagged Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, harm, humane, justice, milk, sentience, veganism, victims, violence | 14 Comments

Response to a ‘welfare’ survey about hens used for eggs

Posted on January 14, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

There’s an Elephant in the Room was recently contacted by a veterinary student with a request to complete a survey on the ‘welfare’ of hens in the egg industry. I did not complete it and … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Abolition vs Welfare, Chickens and eggs | Tagged chickens, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, diet, harm, health, moral choices, sentience, slaughter, vegan, veganism, victims, welfare | 11 Comments

In hope and sadness, another New Year

Posted on December 29, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

As the New Year bells continue to sound the death knell for so many billions of sweet and gentle individuals whom we would have loved if only we had known them, let’s spare a few moments to look at where we’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Advocacy, Festivals | Tagged advocacy, awakening, commodification, compassion, consumer demand, harm, justice, nonviolence, respect, sentience, slaughter, vegan, veganism, violence | 2 Comments