| Re: Sky-diving for eggs from caged hens ban
As a student I worked on a couple of changeover days on a battery farm and I have to say the birds are treated pretty appallingly. Each cage of about 24 inches long and 12 deep had 6 birds in each The birds that were taken out of the cages were virtually featherless, yanked out of the cages and sent to the local glue factory because they are only kept on the farm for about 1 month before being slaughtered. The new healthy birds were stuffed into the cages like large pillows into small cases. The heat and smell in the barn was overpowering with ammonia, you would not have been able to walk from one end to the other without gagging if it weren't for the face masks we wore.
One of the guys always took four old chickens home to roam his garden rather than be paid for the work.
Personally I choose to eat organic free range eggs because they taste better as the birds have generally been allowed to scratch around for their food naturally rather than being fed 'chemical corn' and as long as the egg isn't off I don't mind how old the egg is.
Cheers,
Adam  |