How It's Made show on Eggs... Watch video they made...

[jtbrown]

I am not defending owners of dirty, poorly operated facilities. We are a backyard new hobby operation, I have a feeling I will regret getting in on this. Now that that is out of the way let me say that eggs are an inexpensive bundle of energy and nutrition. We live in a densely populated world, starving people, I HAVE seen this first hand, not just in pictures. While it may be great for us all to be vegan, the majority of us are not and commercial farms are a viable way to feed people. It seems to me more effort should be put into other ways to feed people affordably if you are repulsed by factory farms. I myself was born into a middle class family in the states, and for that am very fortunate, I have never truly been hungry. Let my children go hungry for days or weeks, i will take anything that is safe for them to eat and give it to them. But let me say, if you take inexpensive nutrition from those who can barely afford it, you kill people. This applies to much more than eggs and chickens.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Most operations are not as clean as this one. (probably new) But they are far from as dirty as other pictures floating around show.

Fact of life that chickens poop. Another fact of life is that chickens die. When you have thousands they poop a lot an finding dead ones is not a surprise.

 

[Chickengal505]

I agree with equinelyn, I've been on a few under cover inspections for a project and they are GROSS. And we caught one of the factories who got a tip off of our investigation scurbbing like mad. What they thought clean brought vile into my mouth. Never again will I eat a store bought egg. We rescued about 40 male chicks from a trash bag in the back.

just my two cents.

 

[awesomefowl]

That wasn't really an ill-kept operation! I think the hens should have more room, but they weren't mistreated and the operation was clean. And I'm with Lazy-J farms--people need to eat.

 

[sumi]

Jim
Good point, the world is over populated, we all know that. By 2050 we will need another planet to meet our food demands. Please go online, read about it. Read the findings of CiWF. Us humans want meat, we want eggs, milk etc. The animals and our water resources suffer, it's not essential that we consume so much animal products, so why do we do it? People want to eat chicken, for example, so broiler chickens stand in their own waste for 28 days, from birth to death, feed burnt by their own poo, chests burnt by their own poo... But people want to eat chicken! 5 Chickens in a backyard would be a good start. It would supply a family of 4 with animal protein and hopefully change some people's perceptions of chickens a bit.
Also look up bird flu. Bird flu was a result of factory farming (so was swine flu), bird flu is doing serious damage to the ostrich industry in South Africa. Meat exports stopped, farmers lost all their ostriches, 100's of people with dependents lost their jobs...
All because of factory farming!!!
Is that O.K.?

 

[bt03]

When I read the title I thought it was going to be an inside look as to how the HEN makes the egg not how it gets to the store

Not all egg places are bad. We have one locally that you can buy the old hens from and they are nice people with pretty clean facilities (face it chickens poop and are gross sometimes, even with the best of care). Some of the workers have actually given me ideas on a small scale misting system to keep my chickens cool in the sweltering heat we have this summer.

Please play nice and don't get the thread shut down

 

[sumi]

For more info on the cause of bird flu and swine flu go to http://www.naturalnews.com/019373.html
We're cutting our own throats, Jim, is it worth it?

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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Where are you getting your information? Broilers don't stew in their feces for 28 day!

Ostrich industry? What ostrich industry?

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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Given the choice between confinement livestock operations and starvation the decision for me is easy.

 

[equinelyn]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay, I wasn't trashing factories. It's not necessary to jump down my throat about the issue.

Let me explain my hypothesis. I was just saying that with that many chickens, some are bound to die. And I'm sure that it's not noticed immediately, and when the other chickens in the same cage lay an egg chances are it's going to come into contact with the dead chicken. So in the best interest of the factory they want to disinfect their eggs to prevent consumers from any contaminations. With THAT MANY chickens, it's a lot harder to keep disease under control, especially compared to someone like me at home with 10 hens. So I don't have to wash my eggs, and it's not good to wash them. And c'mon I'm sure they do maintenance cleaning, but if they have a national photographer coming to their facility they will want it SQUEAKY clean looking. You really took everything I said out of context....

capish?