Hi there! If you’re a kid,
and you like gross stuff, then this video is totally for you.
eww..
Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome to another vegan nugget. Welcome to the third
video just for kids! If you missed the first video, we talked all about milk and in the
second, we talked about meat. You can watch both of those later if you want. They’re
linked up there and in the video description.
Today we’re going to talk about eggs and why they are super gross! And in case you
missed the other two videos, I’ll say again that I won’t be showing you anything scary,
though we will talk about some gross stuff and some sad stuff, that I promise not to
talk down to you (cause it’s pretty annoying when adults do that, like we somehow
forget that kids are smart) and I promise tell you the truth no matter what.
So you may have eggs for breakfast, and if you don’t, you certainly know of people
who do. Eggs are also used for baking cakes, cookies, brownies and more.
Well we’re going to look at why eggs are not only gross, but really, really bad for
your body and why farming them is bad for the chickens they come from.
Let’s start with the grossest stuff first. You probably know that the eggs people usually
eat come from chickens. Well here’s the gross part. Chickens, unlike humans, only
have one exit on their backside called a cloaca. And through that exit they pee, they poop,
they make other fluids and they lay eggs, all from the same place.
So lots of people are having for breakfast something that came out of a chicken’s butt.
Now I don’t know about you, but I definitely don’t want chicken butt food for breakfast,
thank you very much.
Now that we’ve covered the gross place that eggs come from, let’s talk about why they’re
bad for your health. You may hear adults say that eggs are good for protein. Well eggs
are actually highest in something called cholesterol, which is not something you want to be eating.
Cholesterol and saturated fat, which are both in eggs, make it really hard for your heart
to do its job. And stopping your heart from doing its job is not a very good idea!
Scientists even made a really long study that starting in 1976, way before you were born,
and they found out that eating just one egg a day shortens your life the same amount as
smoking 5 cigarettes a day! Now, I know that you know that smoking is bad for you, but most
adults don’t even know that eggs are even worse! (So now you’re even smarter than
most adults, which you probably already were anyway...)
Now there’s another big reason to avoid eggs. You may or may not heard of the
word salmonella. It’s a weird word and it’s spelled pretty weird too.
Well, salmonella is a bacteria that chickens can be infected with and pass onto their eggs.
Then, when people eat the eggs, or chicken butt food, as we’ve learned, they get very, very sick.
Now I’m sure your parents or family tell you to wash your hands because of germs. Well
bacteria are a type of germ and salmonella is a type of nasty bacteria. Because so many
people get sick from salmonella when eating eggs, in my country the United States, if
an egg company is making a commercial using money from the government, they’re not even
allowed to say that eggs are safe to eat- because they’re not!
They can't even say that they're healthy, or a good source of protein, or nutritious because they're not!
It's illegal to say that eggs are healthy, nutritious, protein rich, or even safe.
Unless they use their own money and then they can say whatever they want, even if it’s not true, which is pretty
sneaky if you ask me.
Now you may wonder how chickens get so sick in the first place, and it’s not the chicken’s
fault. Chickens aren’t dirty or diseased. You can love them and hug them without having
to worry. The reason so many chickens get sick and then make eggs that make people sick
is because of the way we raise chickens.
Now this is pretty sad, but important. On egg farms, chickens are crammed into tiny
cages and they don’t have enough room to move around. The cages get really dirty and chickens
are so scared and stressed that they get really sick, just like you and I would!
You may hear that some chickens are “cage-free” or “free-range” meaning they’re not
all shoved into cages, and this sounds really nice. But the truth is they’re still just
as crammed together in sheds, only without the cages- it’s still dirty and there’s
still way too many of them in a small space, so they still get sick.
Maybe you know someone who has chickens in their backyard and they eat their eggs.
Well, they’re still just as unhealthy to eat and it’s still taking something that isn’t
ours! I’m sure that you know all about why stealing is wrong and just because someone’s
stealing from a chicken, who they may even treat really nicely, doesn’t make it right.
Now here’s the worst part about eggs. Even worse than the gross stuff about where they
come from and the dangerous stuff they can do to your body. Even worse than how dirty
and cramped and scared the chickens are. You see, to keep making eggs, farmers have to
let some of the eggs that are called 'fertilized' hatch into babies so that those babies can
grow up to make more eggs. But the thing is, the farmers only need the girl baby chicks
because the boy baby chicks can’t lay eggs. So the farmers will kill all of the baby boy
chicks. And they don’t do it nicely at all. It’s very scary and very painful for the baby boys.
I don’t know about you but killing little baby chicks may be one of the saddest and
meanest things I can think of. And all to make a food that’s dangerous to eat!
It doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
Well, like I said in my video on milk, sometimes adults do really crazy things for a lot of
different reasons, but money is a big one.
But here’s the good news: you don’t have to eat eggs. You can cut out the chicken butt,
avoid getting super sick from bacteria, live longer by not hurting your heart with cholesterol,
and best of all, not be a part of putting chickens in horrible, scary cages and sheds
and never, ever be a part of baby boy chicks being killed.
You can still make cookies, cakes, and more with egg substitutes. There are even vegan
bakeries, which means they don’t use eggs or milk, or butter, or anything from animals!
And they taste amazing! You can even have tofu scramble for breakfast instead of scrambled
eggs and your heart, the chickens, and the baby boy chicks will thank you!
Think of the difference that you can make by changing this one part of your life.
You're pretty much a superhero in the chicken world!
I hope that this was helpful. And thank you for listening even in the hard parts.
Now you know why eggs are super gross, really dangerous and really mean, and my hope is that you’ll choose
not to eat them. Let me know what you thought of the video in the comments and if you have
other things you’d like me to cover, let me know!
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Now go live vegan, cut out the butt food, and I’ll see you soon!