Poached, fried, or scrambled? Yummmmmmmmmmm Free Range and Factory Farming Practices are Almost Identical As well as considering the lies told about the living conditions of free range hens, it’s important to look at the standard industry practices as well, as these are enough to make ethically minded consumers think twice about what they are supporting when buying eggs, free range or not. All eggs come from hatcheries where male chicks are considered to be a byproduct of the process and are crushed alive at just one day old. Females have the tip of their beaks burnt off to prevent pecking injuries to each other and are then crammed into huge crates and sent off to their destination farms, with millions dying in transit due to starvation, dehydration and injury. Despite not being housed in individual cages like factory farmed hens, free range egg layers are kept in extremely cramped conditions with as many as 20,000 hens being raised in a single barn, each having a space the size of an iPad. Read more: care2/causes/this-is-who-laid-your-free-range-eggs.html#ixzz3B2FFG53u
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:03:11 +0000
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