The truth about prison eggs

The truth is that “cage eggs” are laid by hens kept in these horrific prison cages.
 
Battery cages are tiny wire cages into which four or five hens are crammed. Sometimes more. The hens are so severely confined that they cannot turn around, flap their wings, stand properly or move freely. Each hen is forced to exist for one or two years in a space about the size of a sheet of A4 paper.
 
Caged hens suffer from horrific health problems and injuries. Their bones are weak due to a lack of exercise and many have broken bones. Hens lose their feathers when they rub against the wire cages or scramble over each other. This is what "spent" battery hens look like if they're lucky enough to be rescued.

Battery cages don’t allow hens to express any of their natural behaviour, such as dust bathing, perching on a roost or laying their eggs in a nest.
 
The close confinement makes the hens attack and cannibalize each other. To counteract this, the hens are de-beaked (also called beak trimming). De-beaking is the extremely cruel practice of cutting off part of the hen’s beak with a hot blade or other equally cruel device.
 
This process is usually done when the hen is a chick and is extremely painful for the hen. The hen’s beak is very sensitive. De-beaking is as painful as pulling out a human fingernail with a hot blade! A battery hen may spend her whole life in severe pain as a result of being de-beaked.
 

This is the horrible reality of life as a battery hen, and it's a reality that should make us all feel ugly.

But just think -

That uncomfortable feeling that you probably have now is absolutely nothing compared to the physical discomfort and mental anguish that millions of battery hens are suffering every minute of every day. And your discomfort will pass quickly, while the pain and suffering of a battery hen just goes on and on.

Perhaps it will take fifteen minutes or even half an hour before you’ve been distracted by something else and the feeling of uneasiness fades away, but you can be sure that those hens will still be feeling the same fear, boredom and unending pain when it does.

And when you’re about to fall asleep in a comfortable bed tonight and the discomfort is just a distant memory, remember that millions of battery hens are still crowded in their cages with no escape from their misery, and absolutely no hope in sight. And tomorrow morning when you wake up feeling refreshed and stretch lazily to greet the sun, every one of those hens will have spent a painful and terrifying night in the same cramped conditions they’ve been subjected to for every minute of their lives.

Except the ones that have died, of course.

And next weekend when you head out for a cold beer or a glass of wine with your mates, you can be sure that millions of battery hens haven’t moved from their tiny prison cells, or stretched their wings, or felt the ground beneath their feet, or done anything that a hen would naturally do if not confined to a living hell.

They’ll have spent every minute of every day confined and in pain. 

And this unimaginable suffering will continue for every single minute of every single day until they are yanked out of their cages, thrown onto trucks and hauled off to a slaughterhouse to be ground up into fertilizer and pet food. Why?

Because human beings are stronger, smarter and hungry. Hungry for cheap food and big profits, and because some people don’t care what it costs to get there.

And why does this continue to happen?

Because of slick marketing, mystical food labelling and the propaganda of big business that doesn't want you to know the truth about factory farming. But now you know the truth, and hopefully you know that you don’t want to support prison cages in any way.

But you may be feeling helpless to help the millions of battery hens who are suffering every second of every day of their lives, and you're probably wondering what one person can do to end this horror?

The answer is very simple. It doesn’t have to be this way.

STOP BUYING OR SUPPORTING PRIOSON EGGS NOW.

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