Flawed logic continues with Julia Galef’s argument that vegetarianism is bad for animals. She presents her first argument as:
“The culprit is eggs. While you only need to kill one single steer to get about 450 pounds (405,000 calories) worth of meat, you’d need to kill about 20 chickens to get enough eggs to match that number of calories. So if you’re a vegetarian who eats a lot of omelets, you’re likely responsible for more animal deaths than someone who chows down on burgers and steaks but doesn’t like eggs.” (Galef 2015).
This argument is unrealistic. She states that you would need to kill the chickens to get the eggs, but this is an untrue statement. Chickens do not have to be killed directly to get eggs. Yes, the eggs do not grow to
