Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Would you like to live like a chicken?


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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