People used to put eggshells in coffee, as a way to keep the grounds from muddying up the rest of it when boiled in a kettle. Also I forgot to mention that chickens will lay eggs whether they've been fertilized or not, so any talk of chickens being "raped" for eggs is greatly exaggerated. Though certainly the chicken/egg industry is one of if not the most cruel and suspect today.
"Like it's normal and natural to be consuming violence and death."
Except that it is, and always has been, normal to consume violence and death. Even when I was a vegetarian (which was again a period of about 3 or 4 years) I knew this. Nature is as brutal as it is beautiful, death and violence happen every second of every day. More complex organisms feed on the less complex and so on up the foodchain. Unnecessary violence and killing is a terrible thing, but to say that in nature such things are not often necessary is absurd.
Certainly the modern mechanized meat industry is a bad thing almost any way you look at it. It's terribly inefficient to feed our ballooning population, it's bad for the environment and cruel to the animals. But it's never going to go away until we come up with something better to feed the world the meat they want and
need. Which is why I advocate research in cloning food, until if/when we figure out some way to overcome the uncertainty principles in physics and replicate food Star Trek style. I respect people who want to go through life doing as little harm as possible, like the
Jains. Some of whom wear masks so they don't accidentally swallow any bugs, and won't even eat fruit off a tree until it falls off on its own. But this guy is just being slimy and dishonest.
Also, the greatest speech ever performed was by Charlie Chaplin, at the end of 1940's "The Great Dictator".