And the So hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of the disclosure

podcast I am your host Ed and I thought with today's or this

week's episode I would do kind of a Q&A episode in the sense of I would go through some of the I guess the most common questions that I find myself getting asked a lot

and messages I get in my inbox and messages people ask me a lot

kind of Q&A sessions after I finished at universities because you know some of these

these questions these topics are good ones but it's not always possible to make them into say a full podcast you know or even to put them in the video so I thought

that it would be this would be a nice format just to maybe go through a few of the

questions that I get asked the most and hopefully you will find interesting so to give you a little

overview just before we start I'm looking at backyard eggs you know dealing with friends and

family that kind of thing so if that springs to mind that's something you've asked

before then this is definitely the podcast for you and if not I hope you find it interesting anyway so let's start

with the first question and the first question is about backyard eggs this is by

far in large one of the questions I get asked most, both by

vegans and also by non-vegans as well. Because I think of face value the idea of it

doesn't seem particularly, well maybe you'd think at face value it seems like it's a fine thing to do.

And with that in mind, there are a few kind of components to this to look at.

And there's the ethical one,

there's the kind of the biological one as well.

So let's go through it all.

And I think we have to start right

from the very beginning of the process,

and that is where do the hens come from in your

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