Organic, cage free eggs

[Guest guest]

You've probably heard this a 100 times, but just in case you (or

somebody else reading) haven't ...

 

Even in the best case scenario, for every female chick that is born,

a male chick (useless to the egg industry) is suffocated, gassed, or

tossed alive into a grinder shortly after birth.

 

Ironically, the male chicks may have it better than the females, who

are often crowded into cage free warehouses with little exposure to

natural elements, in conditions that are only marginally better than

battery cages, until they become unproductive and are slaughtered

for meat, after living only a small fraction of their natural

lifespan, and with little opportunity to live out natural habits,

such as establishing a pecking order, raising chicks, pecking in the

ground for small pebbles, etc.

 

You may have heard the saying that " there's a little veal in every

glass of milk " , because of the fate awaiting male calves born to

dairy cows. You could similarly say that " there's a little

mutiltated baby chick in every egg. "

 

It's not a pleasant image, but this is the dirtly little secret

behind the organic and cage free egg industry.

 

There's nothing nutritional in eggs that can't easily be obtained in

a plant-based diet.

 

- Alan

 

 

, awoogala wrote:

> In a message dated 2/21/2006 10:19:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> writes:

>

> ... we still eat eggs, because I buy organic, cage free,

vegetarian fed, etc., and beacause I like the

> kids to have the brain fats. But, I'd love to have an alternative,

just as a

> change of pace.

>

>

> Lisa

> **

> SAHM to Leif and Winter

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

wow - well you've certainly changed my view, we would

eat eggs occasionally, imagining cage free chickens to

be roaming the farm, how naive.

 

On side but slightly related note - I recently read an

article regarding flowers and the excessive use of

pesticides used in growing them and the effects on the

workers.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/02/08/gree.DTL & hw=organic+\

bouquet & sn=001 & sc=1000

 

Not that we buy many flowers but I certainly never

thought about that before either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I grew up in PA outside of Lancaster County. My brother got a job at a

chicken/egg farm/factory. He said the establishment would take the

baby chicks, still alive, throw them out in the field, and till them

in as fertilizer. He worked there one day.

 

-- In , " Alan " <soy_decaf_latte wrote:

>

>

> You've probably heard this a 100 times, but just in case you (or

> somebody else reading) haven't ...

>

> Even in the best case scenario, for every female chick that is born,

> a male chick (useless to the egg industry) is suffocated, gassed, or

> tossed alive into a grinder shortly after birth.

>

> Ironically, the male chicks may have it better than the females, who

> are often crowded into cage free warehouses with little exposure to

> natural elements, in conditions that are only marginally better than

> battery cages, until they become unproductive and are slaughtered

> for meat, after living only a small fraction of their natural

> lifespan, and with little opportunity to live out natural habits,

> such as establishing a pecking order, raising chicks, pecking in the

> ground for small pebbles, etc.

>

> You may have heard the saying that " there's a little veal in every

> glass of milk " , because of the fate awaiting male calves born to

> dairy cows. You could similarly say that " there's a little

> mutiltated baby chick in every egg. "

>

> It's not a pleasant image, but this is the dirtly little secret

> behind the organic and cage free egg industry.

>

> There's nothing nutritional in eggs that can't easily be obtained in

> a plant-based diet.

>

> - Alan