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From Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
Egg Production is Cruel!
Many people who want to make compassionate choices don’t see anything
cruel about eating eggs; after all, they believe that in order to produce
eggs no animal needs to be killed. Sadly, the reality is very different
because egg-production is one of the cruelest industries on Earth. It
involves:
- Intense confinement, mostly battery
cages.
- Grinding up male chicks, who are
useless to the industry.
- Debeaking of hens, instead of
providing them with enough room.
- No protection by laws. Even the Humane
Slaughter Act excludes poultry.
- Unnatural short lifespans.
- Tragedies where tens of thousands of
hens die at the same time, such as in barn fires, barns collapsing, etc.
- Restriction of natural behaviors: the
vast majority of hens don’t mate, or nest, or roost, or touch grass, or
breath fresh air, or feel the sun, or raise their chicks, etc.
- Due to their living conditions and the
maximization to produce high number of eggs, hens suffer from lameness,
bone-brittleness and muscle weakness.
- Minimum veterinary care: those hens
who are sick are generally left to die.
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