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(Chicken - Baby - 01) At the hatchery,
chicks enter this world inside drawers of huge incubators They have no
mother to take care for them as God intended. Every time we see a scene like
this one we think of Jesus' words as He looked upon Jerusalem: "...how often
I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks
under her wings, but you were not willing" (Matthew 23:37). And now, because
of the hardness of heart of human beings, the analogy of a hen gathering her
chicks under her wings is no longer applicable. |
(Chicken - Baby - 02) The lives of male
chicks have no value to an egg farmer. In this photo, unwanted male chicks
struggle to survive amid egg shells and garbage in a dumpster behind a
hatchery for laying hens. They were just thrown out with the trash. |
(Chicken - Baby - 03) These are more male
chicks that have been thrown away as garbage at a hatchery for laying hens.
Some people mistakenly think that there is no death involved in the egg
business, but they are sadly mistaken. To begin with, for every laying hen
there is a dead male chick. At some hatcheries, if the males are not thrown
away, they are ground up alive, mixed with grain and fed to the females. |
(Chicken - Baby - 04) This photo, and the
next nine photos of dead baby male chickens are from Germany, where about
40,000,000 male chicks are thrown away in trash containers to suffocate to
death every year, simply because they have no commercial value in the egg
industry. |
(Chicken - Baby - 05) These dead baby
male chicks never got to enjoy life as God intended. No wonder God said,
"The intent of man's heart is evil from his youth" (Genesis 8:21). |
(Chicken - Baby - 06) This is a closer
look at some of the 40,000,000 male chicks that are killed by the egg
industry in Germany every year. This number is estimated to be about 4 times
larger in the United States. |
(Chicken - Baby - 07) More murdered male
chicks...their lives are considered worthless by the egg industry, so they
are thrown away as trash. |
(Chicken - Baby - 08) He and his brothers
never got to know life as God intended. Human greed cut their lives short. |
(Chicken - Baby - 09) These dead male
chicks prove that there is nothing humane about egg farming. |
(Chicken - Baby - 10) Just so much
trash... |
(Chicken - Baby - 11) And more trash... |
(Chicken - Baby - 12) Every person who
eats eggs contributes to the death of these baby male chickens and their
mothers. |
(Chicken - Baby - 13) The only thing
these dead male chicks ever got to know about their mothers were the bits of
shell that came from her body. The egg industry is cruel. Be compassionate!
Don't support them with your money. Don't eat eggs! |
(Chicken - Debeaked - 01 This is a baby
female chicken having the end of her beak cut off with the hot knife of the
debeaking machine. This is extremely painful! Every human who eats an egg is
helping this hand torture and mutilate another baby chicken. |
(Chicken - Debeaked - 02) This is a
close-up view of a young hen who has had about half of her beak removed.
Such excessive debeaking can cause life-long pain. Stop the torture! Stop
eating eggs! |
(Chicken - Debeaked - 03) This is a
close-up look at a battery hen who has been debeaked. When chickens are so
crowded together, they irritate one another, just as we would under similar
living conditions. Chickens respond to such irritation by pecking the other
bird. In natural living conditions, the offending bird would just move away;
but in cages, they can't, so these "farmers" cut off the end of their beaks
to minimize the injuries. People create one evil and then create another
evil to try to correct the first evil. How depraved! |
(Chicken - Debeaked - 04) This is
another photo of a hen who has been mutilated by having the end of her beak
cut off with a hot knife, without any anesthesia. Sometimes in the process,
the end of the chicken's tongue is also cut off. It's time people realize
the pain and suffering that goes into each egg. |
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Chicken - Debeaked - 05) Here's a photograph taken from the website of a 'free range' egg farm in Victoria, Australia. The farm is accredited by the Australian Egg Corporation's Egg Corp Assured program.
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(Chicken - Egg Production - 01) Egg laying
hens are packed into 'battery cages' which are lined up in rows in huge
factory warehouses. They are left in these cages for up to two years. Such
inhumane treatment of other living beings is evil. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 02) This is
another look at the hens in a battery cage. Notice the poor condition of
their feathers. By constantly rubbing against their wire cages, egg laying
hens suffer from severe feather loss. This is a human-caused condition! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 03)
Practically all egg laying chickens in the U.S. live in crowded wire battery
cages which are lined up in rows and stacked in tiers. Simply because humans
have the power to treat chickens with such cruelty, doesn't make it right or
just. Evil is evil, no matter how we try to excuse it. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 04) Standing
on slanted wire floors, battery caged laying hens commonly suffer from foot
and leg maladies. To these egg farmers, the suffering of the chickens is of
little or no importance - if it allows the eggs to automatically roll out of
the cages, so that their labor costs are kept down. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 05) One of the
hens in this battery house escaped her cage and is standing in the aisle
between the tiers of cages. The problem is, she still cannot escape her
endless suffering, because she is still locked inside the building. Such
inhumane treatment of another living and feeling being is demonic. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 06) This photo
gives us a closer look at a single battery cage. Typically, four to five egg
laying hens are packed into wire battery cage which has a floor the size of
a folded newspaper. They cannot even stretch their wings. Stop this evil and
cruel treatment of chickens. Stop eating eggs! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 07) These
battery cages are so small that the hens can't even stand up without their
heads sticking out through the wire at the top of the cage. This is an
example of how human beings pile one evil act upon another. It's time it
stops! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 08) Every year
millions of egg laying hens die in their battery cages. This dead hen was
removed from her cage and laid on top of it. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 09) This photo
was taken at an ISC factory farming operation where there are 800,000 laying
hens confined in small cages. The sheer magnitude of this concentration camp
staggers ones imagination. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 10) Some hens
manage to escape from their cages, only to fall into the manure pits below,
where they meet a slow death without food or water. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 11) In the
manure pits, Compassion Over Killing (COK) investigators found mass graves
of dead hens, presumably discarded by workers. The chickens that are alive
have to live in the stench and fumes of the rotting remains of their
companions and their own feces. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 12) COK
investigators reported that the battery cage buildings at ISC were infested
with billions of flies. Note how many have accumulated in the pail of bad
eggs. Perhaps ISC hopes that the chickens will supplement their diet with
these flies, but we can't help wondering what diseases may also be involved. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 13) Many hens
get their heads stuck beneath the feeding trough and die of dehydration. We
believe this happens because the hens are trying to rescue their newly laid
eggs which have rolled away. To us, this proves how emotionally distressing
these "torture chambers" are to the chickens, who on top of all of their
other suffering, lose their children over and over again day after day. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 14) This hen
has her leg caught between the bars of two cages. She is still alive, but
will soon die if not released. To the egg farmers, the life of a single
chicken appears to be of no value. Photos like these prove to us the
evilness of factory farming, and how ungodly these farmers really are. It's
as we are told in Proverbs 12:10, "A righteous man has regard for the life
of his animal, But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel." |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 15) Hens who
get caught underneath feeding troughs suffer from routine trampling from
other birds until they finally die from dehydration. It's as though these
battery cages were deliberately designed to cause the chickens as much pain
and suffering as possible while providing the maximum profit. "For the love
of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have
wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" (1
Timothy 6:10). |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 16) This hen
was still alive. She had woven her neck between the bars of her cage. COK
investigators freed her neck and gave her water. From the condition of the
hen it is obvious that no farm worker made any attempt to rescue her. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 17) We believe
that these cruel egg farmers have crammed 8 hens into this cage. Such
crowding causes enormous psychological and physical strain upon these
chickens. Every person who eats an egg contributes to this suffering. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 18) On the
average, each of the hens in these battery cages has only about 52 square
inches of cage "floor" area. That's an area of 7-1/4 inches by 7-1/4 inches.
They spend most of their lives there simply because some human beings have
the power to force them to do so, and most other people don't seem to care.
It's time we start caring! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 19) Every time
we publish another of these photos in this photo journal, it increases our
resolve to end the suffering that our fellow human beings inflict upon these
innocent beings. Join us, and stop eating animals and their by-products; and
tell others why you have stopped. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 20) These
cages are so crowded that all the hens don't have enough space to sit or lie
down at the same time. In order to find space to sit and lie down, this hen
was forced to climb on top of the other hens. Note the horrible condition of
the top hen's feathers, most of which have been lost. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 21)
Overcrowded conditions lead to feather loss which is caused by the struggle
for space and by constantly rubbing against the wire of the cages. To force
chickens to live this way is evil and ungodly. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 22) This hen
has suffered such severe feather loss that a large area of her skin is bare.
This is cruel and inhumane treatment; but the law says that because it's
standard practice in the industry, it doesn't break the law. That doesn't
make it any less evil. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 23) In
addition to suffering severe feather loss, this hen has been splattered with
feces from hens above her. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 24) Try to
imagine the stress that these hens must be under. Imagine yourself being
trapped in a passenger elevator with seven other people for two years, and
you might come close to understanding what some people are doing to these
chickens. Don't contribute to their pain and suffering. Stop eating eggs! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 25) This photo
shows more chickens suffering from severe feather loss because of the
cruelty and indifference of human beings. It's time we begin to care and
speak out! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 26) More
feather loss and more misery - the story of an egg laying battery hen's
life. And, everyone who eats eggs contributes to their suffering. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 27) This hen
has lost so many feathers that she is almost completely bald. Speak up! Its
time to say no to this pain and suffering. Stop eating eggs, and any
animals. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 28) This is a
photo of a hen with an eye infection. Since vet care costs more than
allowing hens to languish and die, these types of injuries are ignored by
the egg industry. This is just another example of the pain and suffering
that is in every egg. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 29) This is
another hen with an eye problem. She has a growth over her eye which has
remained untreated. This is one of the reasons that we believe that the
animal agriculture industry is evil. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 30) This hen
is suffering with a tumor or infection on the side of her head. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 31) The hen in
the foreground has an untreated infected cut on the back of her head, which
was most likely caused by the sharp end of one of the wires in the cage. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 32) Dead hens
commonly go unnoticed in battery cages, forcing the living to eat and sleep
on top of the corpses of their former cellmates. To us, this is just another
example of how evil the farmed animal industry really is. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 33) Compassion
Over Killing investigators found this dead chicken lying on top of a cage of
living hens. We find it difficult to understand why a farm worker, who had
pulled this dead chicken out of a cage, would leave her on top to rot. Our
only answer is that such people are totally devoid of any compassion.
Surely, such a lack of compassion can be defined as evil. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 34
Here is another dead and decomposing hen that was found lying on top of this
battery cage. Represented here is just a small part of the misery that is in
every egg that is sold or eaten. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 35)
Apparently, this hen died of dehydration after she became stuck between the
wire bars of her cage. All we can presume is that no one cared. The time and
effort needed to release this hen must have been considered more costly than
the life and value of the chicken. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 36) This dead
hen is lying with her head in the food trough. It is hard for us to
understand how this could have gone unnoticed by the farm workers. Obviously
they didn't care. Rightly so does the Bible teach us that "the compassion of
the wicked is cruel." |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 37) Evidently,
this hen accidentally hanged herself when she got her head twisted around
the wires at the top of her battery cage. Eggs don't come to the table
without death. Some die sooner and some suffer on to die later. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 38)
Apparently, this hen was standing on top of another hen. When the lower hen
moved, the one above was left hanging by her neck. These cages are not
designed to protect the hens. They are designed as inexpensively as possible
only to keep the hens confined. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 39) This badly
decomposed hen was found in the bottom of a battery cage with living
chickens still in it. Concern for the life and well-being of farmed animals
appears to be nonexistent. Apparently, all these people value is their
financial statement's bottom line. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 40) This is a
photo of a caged egg-laying hen with a painful eye infection that has gone
untreated at a Buckeye factory farm in Ohio. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 41) This is
what happens when a painful eye infection goes untreated. "It is outrageous
that the operators neglect hens who are suffering so horribly from acute and
chronic eye infections and injuries to the eyes -- one of the most painful
of all areas of the body when afflicted. With eye injuries such as these,
the failure to provide appropriate treatment and veterinary care is the
height of irresponsibility." --Elliot M. Katz, DVM. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 42) This
laying hen, with a painful untreated eye infection, was removed from the
cage. As long as people want cheap eggs to eat, the cruelty will continue to
exist. The answer? Stop eating eggs! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 43) This is
another battery hen, with an untreated painful eye infection, at a Buckeye
factory farm in Ohio. "It is the love of money that leads to such evil" (1
Timothy 6:10), for it is less expensive to allow this living soul to suffer
until she dies than it is to treat her infection, or even to euthanize her.
And, every egg that is purchased contributes to this evil. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 44) From what
we have learned, eye infection seems to be quite common among battery hens.
We believe that the major contributing factor is the ammonia gas coming from
the manure coupled with the crowded unsanitary conditions. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 45) This hen
is suffering from a serious sinus infection. Without proper veterinary care,
this condition will only get worse, and the chicken will continue to suffer
until she dies. To allow this to happen is evil, and it shows us how
depraved some humans can be. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 46) This hen
is suffering from an infection that has caused severe swelling on the side
of her face. She feels pain just as much as we do. As long as humans demand
cheap eggs, this suffering and depraved indifference to life will continue. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 47) This is
another hen with a severely swollen head which was caused by an untreated
infection. Stop the cruelty! Stop eating eggs! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 48) This hen's
wing is caught between the wires of a battery cage. She is unable to get to
food or water or to lie down. She is painfully suspended in an upright
position. Imagine having your hand and wrist tied to a shower curtain rod so
that you can't sit down or get to drinking water for more than a whole day,
and you might have some idea what this hen is suffering. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 49) This is
another hen who has been caught in the wires of a battery cage. In this
condition, she is unable to get to food or water. This problem is caused by
humans who consider cheap construction costs more important than the welfare
of the chickens. The Bible tells us that this is evil (1 Timothy 6:10);
since, to such people, the love of money far outweighs concern for the lives
of chickens. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 50) This hen's
foot is swollen to several times its natural size. One of the evils of this
egg industry is that they don't spend any money on veterinary care for sick
and injured hens. Because money is their god, those in this industry
consider it less expensive to let the hens suffer and die than to treat
their problems. Don't be part of this ungodliness! Don't buy or eat eggs! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 51) Because
the battery hens never get a chance to scratch the ground, as God intended
them to do, their toe nails are not ground down. As a result they grow too
large (see photo). This condition makes it both difficult and painful to
even stand properly. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 52) This hen
died with her head stuck in the egg trough. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 53) Laying
hens are forced to stand every moment of every day on wire bottom cages
which hurt their feet. When a cage mate dies, the live chickens will stand
on top of the dead one to relieve the pain. From the condition of dead
chicken, she has obviously been left in the cage for a long time. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 54) This is
the body of another dead chicken that has been left to decompose in the
bottom of a battery cage. This is proof positive that eating eggs DOES
contribute to chicken suffering and death. |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 55) This is
another photo of hens standing on the decomposing body of a dead cage mate.
There is no compassion in the factory farming industry! |
(Chicken - Egg Production - 56) ...and
another photos of a hen standing on the decomposing body of another her...
After seeing the reality of the cruelty involved in factory farming
operations, people frequently write to us and say that they are ashamed to
be a member of the human race. When we read statements like these, we think
about how much worse God must feel about the human race, since He lovingly
created all the animals and charged humans with compassionately caring for
them. |
(Chicken - Forced Molting - 01) As
laying hens age, they begin to lay fewer eggs. So, in order to increase
their profits, the egg industry starves the hens for up to two weeks,
causing the hens to molt. The forced molting puts the hens in a survival
mode, so that when they are fed again, they begin to lay more eggs.
Financial gain does not justify such evil practices. |
(Chicken - Forced Molting - 02) This
hen was rescued after living for months in a dark shed with thousands of
other hens, all stuffed into cages with three-six other hens. Being starved
of food or water, she was forced molted several times before being rescued.
Here she enjoys the first moments of peace she may have ever experienced. |
(Chicken - Forced Molting - 03) Hens
might be force-moulted one more time, or even twice, in order to get as many
eggs from your tired body as possible. And then, when—like the dairy cow—you
can’t produce enough of your reproductive secretions, you become cheap
meat—dog food, soup, or baby food. You will be less than two years old,
about a tenth of your potential lifespan. |
(Chicken - Broiler - 01) The name
"broiler" is a term that the farmed chicken industry uses for chickens who
are raised for meat. In these concentration camps, these chickens are
crowded together by the thousands in "grower houses" where each chicken is
given approximately half a square foot of space. |
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(Chicken - Broiler - 02) This is
another view of chickens who are raised for meat being crowded by the
thousands in "grower houses." Approximately nine billion chickens like these
are slaughtered every year in the U.S. They are being deprived of their
God-given liberty for their entire lives. This is evil! The Bible teaches us
that we are to "rule" over the animals in the same way we expect our elected
government officials to "rule" over us. | |
(Chicken - Broiler - 03) This is
another photo of the horribly crowded conditions that exist on factory
farms. These chickens never get a chance to go outside and feel the grass
under their feet. The only time they leave is when they are being
transported to their death. |
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(Chicken - Broiler - 04) Selective
breeding and genetic manipulation create legs and organs that are unable to
support the unnatural growth. Perosis, twisted leg, and heart attacks are
common. To produce the huge "chicken breast" that brings profit, this bird
cannot even stand up. This bird is about seven weeks old and will be sent to
slaughter in a matter of days. |
(Chicken - Transport - 01) Chickens
aren't offered any compassion. We have seen videos taken in their crowded
"houses" showing chickens being grabbed by the feet by "handlers" and held
upside down, several in each hand, and thrust into shipping crates like
these chickens who have been loaded onto a truck for transport to a
slaughterhouse. |
(Chicken - Transport - 02) This is a
closer look at the chickens in their crowded shipping crates as they are
being transported to the slaughterhouse. Every time a person eats a part of
a chicken's body, he or she contributes to the suffering of these birds. |
(Chicken - Transport - 03) At the
slaughterhouse, the crates are unloaded by a small crane. We have seen
concrete blocks and gypsum wallboard being unloaded like this on a
construction site. These chickens aren't inanimate objects; they have
emotions and feelings just as we have. Only humans are capable of such
insensitivity. |
(Chicken - Slaughter - 01) Every
hour at the slaughterhouse, thousands of chickens are hung upside down in
shackles on a conveyer and killed. We can only imagine the terror that they
feel. |
(Chicken - Slaughter - 02) This is
another photo of chickens in a slaughterhouse. When we became aware of the
pain and suffering that our fellow human beings inflict upon other living
beings, we adopted a vegan diet as a protest against this holocaust and no
longer eat any animals or their by-products. |
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