There's something very funny about HRT coming from a literal egg
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
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If HRT stops being vegan I'm gonna flip My fucking lid.
Is it vegan now?
Depends if you get it the normal way or feast on the raw ovaries of woodland creatures.
Maybe if I was younger, but running around the woods is too hard on my knees these days
I mean, the mental effects of HRT are pretty hard on my knees as it is.
Because you're horny enough that you're always on them for one reason or another?
I plead the dick, I mean fifth
Estrogen is made from soybeans or other plants, unsure about progesterone and testosterone. It's possible pills can sometimes be made with lactose or something but the hormones themselves are usually vegan
wait so the people calling me soyboy were right?!?!
That's cool. I thought that the estrogen in soy was phytoestrogen or something like that, a plant equivalent that doesn't affect animals? Guessing there's some processing step to transform it?
Probably! I don't know much about the process
Huh, TIL - thank you!
For context, it used to be made with pregnant house urine, but using plants is now cheaper and more ethical. Hormone related stuff always seems to start with some animal suffering.
Many thing's in life are, even more so when one counts humans as animals
How do i get my house pregnant? I gotta do my part for the housing shortage!
lol, I meant horse, but this made me wonder if maybe the evil and intimidating horse has a reason to hate trans lesbians 🤔
I'm sure if we can make eggs produce it, its probably cheaper to make plants produce more
yes, let us become more relient on animal cruelty and enslavement
Who knows, maybe this backfires and conservatives stop eating eggs because they give you the gay.
Backfires? Seems like the ideal outcome
We already are. I admit that I know very little about the topic, but are we not reliant on animal cruelty for: insulin, antivenom, spider silk, and many more where alternatives would be expensive or even non existent? Though I do agree in this case with HRT, because I love injections and I find them relatively cheap. Feel encouraged to correct me.
i'm not super informed on those subjects, but i did not mean to imply that humanity is not currently relying on animal cruelty. my point is just that we should not increase that relience. i think we should really do everything we can to minimize it (short of killing/starving ourselves)
Eggstrogen
if we can do it in chickens why the fuck wouldnt we do it in some micro organism?
Eggs taste better.
"The cruelty is the point"
In hierarchical society higher power and status creates more externalized suffering, so the creation of externalized suffering gets inversely associated with power, virtue, and validity.
Why would you automatically assume that instead of a valid scientific reason, it’s just that the scientists are comic book villains cackling in their lab and intentionally torturing chickens?
I don't assume that, or presume that.
Your first sentence, set aside so nobody could miss it, in quotation marks.
Oh that phase is a meme used for observations institutional social harm, I opened with it because familiarity with that trope is a good foundation for understanding my own observation of hierarchy. I can totally see how if it wasn't familiar to you it might sound like I'm saying individuals are committing explicit and isolated acts of cruelty for it's own sake but that's not what I meant to imply, sorry for the confusion.
Get ready for an estradiol egg contract to show up on Egg Inc. lol
chicken eggs are useful in producing weakened viruses, not antibodies, thats very different, they usually use other animals like horses, rabbits for anti-venim.
Ironic, for a food that resembles a testicle.