poor chickens

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Question and answer by Carla's PETA section

 

It's OK to eat eggs because chickens lay them naturally. The eggs

we

buy in the supermarket are sterile and not unborn fetuses, right?

 

The cruelty of egg production lies in the treatment of the " laying "

hens themselves, who are perhaps the most abused of all factory-

farmed animals. Up to five hens are packed into each cage the size of

a filing cabinet drawer. The cages are stacked many tiers high; feces

from the cages above fall onto the chickens below. Hens become lame

and develop osteoporosis from forced immobility and calcium lost to

produce egg shells. Some birds' feet grow around the wire cage

floors; they starve to death because they are unable to reach the

food trough. At just 2 years of age, most hens are " spent " and sent

to the slaughterhouse. Egg-laying hatcheries have no use for male

chicks so they suffocate, decapitate, crush, or grind them up alive.

 

Each egg from today's egg factory farms represents 22 hours of

hell

for a hen.