Introduction:
Most
people's mental image of Egg Production is that of a farmyard in which chickens
are free to roam about, to fly, and to even roost in the trees. To the
side of the yard is a chicken coop, where the chickens are free to enter, to
leave, and to nest and lay their eggs. Then each day the farmer comes out
with his or her basket and collects the eggs for market or personal use.
While such a situation may exist on some individual small farms, nothing is further from the truth when it comes to the vast majority of farms engaged in commercial Egg Production. Additionally, many ethical vegetarians believe that the eating of eggs is ok as it doesn't cause the death of the chicken.
On this page you will find a compilation of information we have gathered, and believe to be true, from various sources that is intended to enlighten, and hopefully evoke a further softening of the heart towards all of God's creatures. We have linked these references for the reader's convenience and further investigation.
- The Chicken - Animal Exploitation Photo Journal
- Introduction
- 750 Hens from Battery Cage Egg Farm Safe
- 500,000 Chickens Perish in Factory Farm Fire in Colorado
- A Cage Is A Cage
- A Hatchery Account
- A Victory for Farm Animals?
- Agreement Raises Hopes & Fears for Egg-Laying Hens: Our Perspective
- Animal Organizations Intensify Opposition to Egg Bill (H.R. 3798) in Anticipation of Senate Version
- Animal Place’s Position on “Humane” Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
- Animal Suffering in the Egg Industry
- Another rotten egg story
- Appalling Cruelties at Nation’s Top Egg Producers
- Backyard Slaughter Reality Check
- Battery Cage Ban to Remain in Force
- Battery Hens, United Poultry Concerns
- Battling Battery Cages
- Black Eagle Farm: Story of an Organic Egg Scam
- But for the Sake of Some Little Mouthful Of Flesh…
- California Ag-Gag Bill is Dead
- California Egg Farmers Face Felony Cruelty Charges for Leaving 50,000 Hens to Starve to Death
- Chickens Deserve Compassionate Care
- Chickens, Eggs, and the Free-Range Scam
- Chicks Ground Up Alive
- Dear Ellen: Let Us Tell You Something About “Happy”
- Debeaking - Mutilation to Increase Profit
- Debeaking - Poultry Researcher Speaks Out
- Debeaking - An e-mail discussion with an Industry Researcher
- Debeaking - Comments on e-mail discussion 12/99
- Debeaking Poultry: The Need For Legislation
- Doris the Hen’s Amazing Recovery and What Most Don’t Know about Eggs
- Dustbathing...Heaven for "Spent" Hens
- Eggribusiness
- Eggs - Flyers/Handouts
- Eggs-tremely Disgusting: Inspectors Uncover Factory Farm Filth in Iowa
- Eggs for Breakfast? The Reality of What Goes Into Them
- Enriched Cages and Embodied Prisons
- Factory Farming on Display
- Farmed Animal Sanctuaries Oppose “Enriched” Cages for Laying Hens
- Food Recalls, Awareness, and Consumer Attitudes
- Forced Molting
- Free-Range: Not Free Enough
- Free-Range Poultry and Eggs
- Happy Rape, Happy Meat
- Hard Boiled Nonsense
- Hatcheries Ship Male Chicks as Packing Peanuts
- How many animals really suffer to death?
- How Mom-Friendly is Your Mother’s Day Menu?
- HSUS New Egg Exposé: The Reality Behind Modern Egg Production
- Humane Loopholes
- I Am Not Garbage!
- Industry News: Egg Consumption Is Declining
- Investigation at Kawartha Lakes Co-op
- Is the US Egg Industry “Evolving”? Agreement Raises Hopes for Egg-Laying Hens
- Keeping the Foxes out of the Henhouse: Avoiding Potential Legislative Pitfalls Following Historic Agreement for Egg-Laying Chickens
- Killing Chickens in a Wood Chipper Discussed in The Canadian Veterinary Journal
- Maine Egg Producer Pleads Guilty to 10 Counts of Cruelty to Animals
- McDonald's Cruelty: The Rotten Truth About Egg McMuffins
- Neither the Chicken Nor the Egg: Deal Struck Between HSUS and Egg Producers
- Ohio Fresh Eggs Fined $635,000, "Settles" Pollution Claims
- Parental Appeal to Stop Daycare Chick Hatching Project Succeeds
- Poultry Slaughter: The Need For Legislation
- Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs 2009, Preface
- Proposed Legislation for Egg-Laying Hens: An Update
- Rejecting the Egg Bill Means Rejecting Cages
- Rescuing Some Egg-Laying Hens
- Rooftop Protest at Melbourne Egg Laying Farm
- Santa Cruz Hatchery Shutdown after Unprecedented Settlement Reached in Cruelty Case
- Senate Rejects Feinstein's Egg Bill
- Stench and Cruelty: Factory Egg Farm Ruled a Nuisance by Federal Grand Jury
- Tell Congress to STOP the Rotten Egg Bill
- The Backyard Bird Fad: Profit is All They Care About
- The Dark Side of Recent Egg Headlines
- The Fatal Recall System
- The Great Egg Debate - Science, Not Emotion, Shows that Caged Laying Hens Have Poor Welfare
- The Happy Hens of Europe
- The HSUS-United Egg Producer Agreement: Two Reactions
- The Price of Eggs
- The Story of an Egg Documentary is Without a Yolk
- Their Eggs, Not Ours
- Un-Cooped: Deconstructing the Domesticated Chicken
- U.S. Government Bails Out Chicken Factory Farms
- War on Vegan Activism
- Widespread Practices, Inherent Cruelty and Suffering
- Workers rescue over 4,000 hens from factory farm
- What’s Wrong with Backyard Eggs?
- When We Suddenly See the Same Things Differently
- Why "Cage-Free" or "Free-Range" Eggs Are NOT a Humane Alternative – In a Nutshell
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