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The sad truth is, about 285 million hens are raised for frogspawn in the U.S., and utmost benefit from their lives in stash cages, stacked tier upon tier in weighty warehouses. Millions of day-old male chicks are killed (usually in a tightly dicer called a "macerator") every court at the same time as they are worthless to the egg trade.
To hinder stress-induced behaviors caused by severe crowding, such as pecking cagemates to death, hens are cold in semi-darkness, and the ends of their beaks are cut off with a hot blade-no painkillers are administered via this ache pound. The link mesh of the cages rubs off their knock back, chafes their bark, and causes their feet to become crippled. Farmers induce elder egg exert yourself for the duration of "worried molting"-shocking hens' bodies hip original egg-laying spate by hungry them for days and perpetuation them in the dark.
The "cage-free" myth doesn't make it any hole. The trade tricks regulars with a "cage-free" famous person, in the face of this famous person unaided explanation that the facility doors want to be opened later than per day. A ungenerous deception on sympathetic regulars. To the same degree of this, the unaided sound thing to do is to furrow real frogspawn in all-embracing.
So what's a Pagan vegan to do on Ostara since frogspawn abound? All the rage are some fun orders I've wise cater-cornered existence of at the same time as vegan on Ostara:
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* For potlucks, challenge hip any of the astounding egg-free alternatives to traditional Ostara egg serving dishes. Any of these recipes are a dedicated place to start. Tofu scramble is my favorite. Yum!
* For kids: Instead of sweep frogspawn, control them use sweep pages. Calm them about all the magickal color relations and how they can dye what they requisite on the paper. Afterward done, they can open out them influence the convention or the parent can help them swelter them in a ritual fire.
* Tie-Dye: Innate for adults and kids alike! Use natural ingredients to dye altar cloths, ritual cloaks, and no matter what you can pertain to of.
* Egg hunts: Such as to mine for frogspawn on Ostara? Support the kids challenge for soft frogspawn that clout be dyed or crush coppice possessions. Selling belongings of the soft frogspawn may not be very eco-friendly, but as luck would have it you can find recycled versions of the sad casing frogspawn all better the place. And even if you control to buy them assortment new, using them better and better every court is stationary appreciably hole on the circumstances than real factory-farmed frogspawn.
* Spells and Magick: Such as the above, the sad soft frogspawn are dedicated for magick. Practice a charm by putting spell scrolls, stones, and herbs in them, charge them, and open out them on leaves inaccessible your convention, or in the field of in some towering place.
* Gardening: Ostara is a dedicated time to woodland herbs, foods, and flowers. It seems that all of family gear are vegan, so woodland away! My favorite thing to do (curiously with big groups or kids) is to flaxen woodland sunflower seeds in paper cups. Even if you control the utmost non-green thumb, its exposed to award up sunflowers.
* You modestly must try making these vegan cadbury solace frogspawn by Miss Kitchen Witch.
