Think about it—if you could lay eggs, how would you like it
if you would live your entire productive life on your knees, in a square cage
measuring two feet on each side and about four feet high?
In other words, you couldn’t turn around and you couldn’t
stand up.
That’s pretty much how many chickens live on commercial egg
factory farms.
On January 1, California will implement a new regulation
forcing egg producers to allow a minimum of 114 square inches of space for each
chicken in their flocks, a 70% increase from the current requirement that
stipulates a minimum of 67 square inches per bird.
Think about it—a 67-square-inch cage is roughly 8 inches on
each side. Get out your ruler and measure that space on the table in front of
you.
An adult chicken can be squeezed into that space, but it’s
ugly.
Many birds on today’s egg factory farms pump out the eggs,
day after day, until they die, surviving in poor health, with open sores, in
fetid, cramped squalor.
When you think about it, it makes the cheese omelet taste a
bit different….
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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