Special breeds of hens are used for egg production, selected for their ability to lay large volumes of eggs.
Most of these hens spend their lives confined to battery cages so small that they can’t even stretch their wings.
While wild chickens lay between 10 and 15 eggs a year, hens bred for egg production are pushed to lay around 300 eggs annually, leading to numerous health problems.
Not all hens are confined in an enclosure for 24 hours a day. Some free-range hens have access to the outdoors and can roam freely.
These free-range hens can experience the rain and the wind, breathe fresh air, and feel the sun’s heat.
Would it be unreasonable to give all chickens that opportunity?
Next time you shop, please consider purchasing free-range eggs.
Incremental change is important, but I fear that it makes companies and people complacent that they have done something and don’t need to change further. We see this effect in fighting global warming where people make an incremental change and beam that they are fighting climate change, when what we need is monumental change. With animal cruelty, although the issues aren’t as pressing in terms of existential threat as climate change, the longer we tolerate incremental change the more animals are mistreated.
How can we insure incremental change doesn’t stand in the way of more substantive changes? Or are committed to waiting another 30+ years for the next change?
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I’m referring to caged egg-laying hens.
Special breeds of hens are used for egg production, selected for their ability to lay large volumes of eggs.
Most of these hens spend their lives confined to battery cages so small that they can’t even stretch their wings.
While wild chickens lay between 10 and 15 eggs a year, hens bred for egg production are pushed to lay around 300 eggs annually, leading to numerous health problems.
Not all hens are confined in an enclosure for 24 hours a day. Some free-range hens have access to the outdoors and can roam freely.
These free-range hens can experience the rain and the wind, breathe fresh air, and feel the sun’s heat.
Would it be unreasonable to give all chickens that opportunity?
Next time you shop, please consider purchasing free-range eggs.
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Incremental change is important, but I fear that it makes companies and people complacent that they have done something and don’t need to change further. We see this effect in fighting global warming where people make an incremental change and beam that they are fighting climate change, when what we need is monumental change. With animal cruelty, although the issues aren’t as pressing in terms of existential threat as climate change, the longer we tolerate incremental change the more animals are mistreated.
How can we insure incremental change doesn’t stand in the way of more substantive changes? Or are committed to waiting another 30+ years for the next change?