In Italy, 80% of the hens live in battery cages , which means that they are destined to spend their entire lives in cages smaller than an A4 sheet (immaginatelo. ..), packed up multiple files and placed in warehouses ( bad) artificially ventilated and lit.
The lights are kept burning around the clock to force the hens to produce as many eggs as possible is of little interest to the farmers that the animals can not open their wings, scratching, bathing the earth, nor - nor - lay their eggs in a nest, as they would in nature. What counts is the production , which must be massive, exaggerated, he says, without some respect for the natural cycles.
forced to live crammed against each other, in a closed, claustrophobic, chickens end up crazy, kill each other, their nails grow so much to wrap around the bars of the cages, causing them great pain. I'm talking about
unspeakable suffering, encouraged and pursued solely for the purpose of obtaining large quantities of eggs tasteless, unhealthy and devastating environmental impact .
eggs produced according to modern industrial methods involve fact:
1) abhorrent living conditions for hens : that what was shown in the first part of this post is helpful to give look at the following videos and photographs
So the chickens should be kept ...
... are so used to death in factory farms:
On channel VIDEOLAV, to this address found the movie that shows the living conditions of aberrant of hens in battery cages.
2) damage to our health: the eggs produced using industrial methods are far from healthy. The hens are fed a feed based on cereals grown intensively, with extensive use of herbicides and pesticides. Not to mention the antibiotics and hormones fed to chickens who regularly, through the consumption of meat and eggs, then move on in our bodies;
3) damage to the environment: the feed given to laying hens are made wide waste of water and energy resources, both during the manufacturing process or during transport. In addition, the corn-based feed these are added to fish meal or soybean: the latter achieved through GM crops and often imported from poorer countries, to be responsible of killing crops many hectares of forests. With the addition of these ingredients, you try to make the power of laying more protein - protein and subtracting resources to people in developing countries. We do not care to fight hunger in the world, we just want our chickens are fatter .
Given all this, I ask you: it really worth it?
I invite you to reflect and inform you: choose to eat eggs only from organic farms, controlled and safe can be an important first step in the fight against cruelty and opportunism on the road to a "decrease happy."
Sources:
• AAM - Newfoundland
• Hens free - Site LAV
