This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. On our little farm, I have between 5 and 12 chickens for free range eggs (commercial eggs are gross!) and they lay almost every day naturally (without ever being exposed to a rooster) from 5 months of age until 18 months, when they molt. After the molt they will continue laying until the next molt. And so on until they die. Even if there is a rooster present if you collect the eggs every day, you don't get anything surprising in there.
I don't know if you realize this, but women already do have a menstrual cycle continually until they become sterile.
First things first - if that post really was the stupidest thing you have ever heard - you need to get away form that farm a little more often.
With my comments about cruelty / bad things happening to animals - I wasn't talking about your farm chickens. (I don't think a majority of the eggs in supermarket shelves came from your farm - or a farm like yours) I was talking about commercial egg-farms - you know, those Chicken Paradise Hotels where they are locked in a change 24-7 where they ARE hormonally charged to produce more - and ARE burned out within weeks (egg quality degrades) and then get to be shredded into McNuggets when the eggs don't satisfy the internal "quality standards". (out of the egg box hotel, and into a frozen dinner) I've seen these farms first hand (unfortunately) - and they really do operate like this.
The "rooster surprise" we got one morning nobody expected - as he wasn't supposedly in there. (those chickens had a restraining order) This is what lead the surprise come omelet time.
Truthfully - ever since my ex dragging me through her pre-vet studies on commercial farming - I've changed a LOT of my eating habits. I know many people would. I've been only buying "cage-free" eggs ever since the chicken thing.
I'm unfortunately all to aware of womans' menstrual cycle (most men are). I was trying to say how it wouldn't be ethical to speed up her menstrual cycle to achieve a profit - but somehow it's a-ok to do to "lesser" creatures. (commercial chickens in my scenario)
My whole top-level argument, was to point out how we "pity" a Whale dying over a commercial Cow or Chicken - and that somehow it's death is greater - than say the death of a Bull in a Bull-fight. I DO UNDERSTAND - how in this scenario the Whale is a bigger issue - being a species on the brink of extinction.
Also - to the Scorpion versus the Pig, Cow, Whale or Chicken - I was NOT comparing nervous systems of different organisms or their ability to feel pain. (though I do feel we're wrong to say that WE know A feels less than B)
What I was trying to point out, was that ALL of these creatures have a DESIRE to live. Not necessarily a cognitive process - but the drive that has kept those species on earth for millions of years. That survival instinct is something that should be obvious to anyone. I was saying that killing something that has a desire to exist - isn't exactly pleasant for it. Because we're inflicting exactly what the creature has been trying to avoid since birth.