Maria Amore skrev:
"The tens of thousands of chickens crammed into one egg
production shed have nowhere to move and no way to nest, establish
social order, or in any way express their natural intelligence or
purpose. The artificial lighting schedule that keeps them in almost
continuous darkness, and the feed and drugs are all designed with only
one goal: to cut costs and to maximize the number of eggs that drop from
the hens’ uteruses and roll down the slanted wire cage bottoms to be
whisked away on the conveyor belt. On modern chicken operations, this is
over 250 eggs per year, more than two and a half times the number hens
would normally lay under natural conditions. In nature, a hen is
particular about her nest and often chooses the right place to lay her
precious egg in partnership with a rooster. When she actually lays the
egg in her carefully prepared nest, it is obviously for the hen a moment
full of pride and satisfaction. Contrast this with the following
description of egg laying for a caged chicken:
The
frightened battery hen starts to panic as she vainly searches for
privacy and a suitable nesting place in the crowded but bare wire cage;
then she appears to become oblivious to her surroundings, struggling
against the cage as though she is trying to escape…
Take a moment
to imagine yourself as a layer chicken; your home is a crowded cage with
a wire floor that causes your feet to hurt and become deformed; there’s
no room to stretch your legs or flap your wings and they become weak
from lack of exercise; but at the same time you can never be still
because there is always one of your miserable cell mates who needs to
move about; one of the other chickens is always picking on you and you
cannot get away – except by letting others sit on top of you; the air is
filled with dust and flying feathers that stick to the side of the cage
splattered with chicken shit from the inmates in the cage upstairs; it
is hard to breathe – there is the choking stench of ammonia in the air
from the piles of manure under the cages and you don’t feel well at all;
the flies are unbearable despite the insecticide sprayed in the air and
laced in your food – to kill the fly larvae before they mature; the
food – never green and fresh – never varies and tastes always of the
chemical additives and drugs needed to keep you alive; eventually,
despite your wretchedness and anguish, and the tormented din of
thousands of birds shrieking their pain together, you lay an egg and you
watch it roll out of sight; but the joy of making a nest, of giving
birth, of clucking to your chicks is absent – laying the egg is an
empty, frustrating, and exhausting ritual."
World Peace Diet, Dr. Will Tuttle pages 127-8.
Please,
I beg you, let's acknowledge that this domination and slavery is not
right. Let's choose compassion and choose from among the many delicious
recipes that don't include eggs! There is absolutely no reason for us to
consume eggs in our diet. In fact, we have no right to do this to other
precious Beings!
Do not kid yourselves: organic,
free-range, grain-fed, humane are all myths created by a greedy industry
to appease your conscience. There is nothing humane about the egg and
chicken industries.
Go vegan - end the suffering.
Please share this note so that everyone knows the truth about what is going on behind "closed doors".
More about eggs:
The eggs are still not ours, they belong to the chickens.
The chickens need the eggs to replenish their vitamins and minerals.
Good article: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/what-are-the-roots-of-freedom-and-slavery/
An interesting perspective: http://gentleworld.org/whats-wrong-with-backyard-eggs/
Cholestorol in eggs and other animal products kills humans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYTf0z_zVs0
Yes, they eat their unfertilized eggs. And being so abused by the
breeding-industry - laying a very unnatural amount of eggs - they surely
need all the nutrients they can get (and lose in the egg laying
process).
[An example: http://freefromharm.org/animal-rescue-stories/what-do-you-do-with-the-eggs-if-you-dont-eat-them/ ]
Another
problem with taking their eggs and taking other products from animals
is that it is treating animals as "property" - a status which results to
lots of suffering and death of animals in our society:
"Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does
not and cannot establish rights for animals. As long as they are viewed
as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and
economic benefit of human beings."
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/books/animals-property-and-the-law/
Many
important articles about hens and eggs here:
http://freefromharm.org/animal-products-and-culture/all-about-eggs-free-from-harms-collection/
http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welfare/my-hens-prolapse-is-a-good-reason-not-to-eat-eggs/
