A Chooks Life.

Can you imagine life like this? The chooks on the left are free range chickens. What a difference in the quality of life. The poor things above spend their whole two years of life, if that long, like this. Never knowing what the sun looks like, to scratch in the dirt, the feel of rain or the look of it. Or even probably just to turn around. You know we can make a difference if we all decide not to buy caged eggs, and only free range. Next time you are at the shops check to see where the eggs come from. Are they free range? if not ask the shop owners only to stock free range. Can you imagine suffering like above? Are your eggs really that important to you that you want to help to contribute to two years of extreme cruelty to their lives? Do you know chooks are wonderful pets, and have such individual personalities. Nothing is put on this earth to suffer like above. If you think the photo above is bad, just link to a couple of the sites promoting animal cruelty, and IF you can watch the videos showing the lives of these poor creatures I am sure it will change your mind on what kind of eggs you want to buy.

The info below is from a couple of sites who are against cruelty to animals.

Birds on egg farms don’t have enough space to lift one wing, and the wire grating of their cages constantly cuts into their feet.

Battery cages are stacked on top of each other, and excrement constantly falls onto the birds in the lower cages and into huge manure pits that line the sheds. The stench of ammonia and feces hangs heavy in the air, and disease runs rampant in the filthy, cramped sheds. Many birds die, and survivors are often forced to live with their dead and dying cagemates, who are left to rot. The light in the sheds is constantly manipulated in order to maximize egg production. Periodically, for two weeks at a time, the hens are only fed reduced-calorie feed. This process induces an extra laying cycle.