Venting About Factory Chicken Farming

[TheChiggens]

but anytime I do purchase eggs from the market, I always purchase eggs that come from free range organic chickens. My hopes are that the birds laying those eggs are cared for and treated better than the birds in the picture you shared. That's enough to make one stop eating chicken.

Yup, know where you get your products! And buy local! Or raise your own! but then know how the feed is made.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

I know it’s incredibly sad. I now only adopt or rescue all of my pets. I’m also now vegan after lots of research and learning. Plus I just morally can’t do it.

 

[West Bend]

I'm with you on this (and many other things). This just gives me that feeling of being punched right in the gut. I honestly don't understand how it's still legal to do this. I understand that this is the results from a huge demand for eggs, but there's got to be a better way. I just started getting enough eggs that I'm hoping I can stop purchasing eggs so often. Not that it's that much better, but anytime I do purchase eggs from the market, I always purchase eggs that come from free range organic chickens. My hopes are that the birds laying those eggs are cared for and treated better than the birds in the picture you shared. That's enough to make one stop eating chicken. As far as how someone can think all is good, I don't get it. I have 1 complete and total JERK (and 1 slight part time jerk) that belong to me & I should just send them to the famous "freezer camp", but I just can't. I am such a softie and desperately need to woman up and cull them, but my daughter helped hatch them in school and we've cared for them ever since the end of May (brought them home when they were 1 week old). We have pictures of them with us. Even though they hate me, I'd still never wish them to have to live like these birds.

I'm with you on this (and many other things). This just gives me that feeling of being punched right in the gut. I honestly don't understand how it's still legal to do this. I understand that this is the results from a huge demand for eggs, but there's got to be a better way. I just started getting enough eggs that I'm hoping I can stop purchasing eggs so often. Not that it's that much better, but anytime I do purchase eggs from the market, I always purchase eggs that come from free range organic chickens. My hopes are that the birds laying those eggs are cared for and treated better than the birds in the picture you shared. That's enough to make one stop eating chicken. As far as how someone can think all is good, I don't get it. I have 1 complete and total JERK (and 1 slight part time jerk) that belong to me & I should just send them to the famous "freezer camp", but I just can't. I am such a softie and desperately need to woman up and cull them, but my daughter helped hatch them in school and we've cared for them ever since the end of May (brought them home when they were 1 week old). We have pictures of them with us. Even though they hate me, I'd still never wish them to have to live like these birds.

To the best of my knowledge...."Free-range" by industry standards means they have access to outside, they are still kept jam-packed in a warehouse-just like "cage-free", but who don't have outside access. Only "pasture raised" have more outside room to roam

 

[FathertoFeathers]

Ugh. Factory Farming is awful. With all species. I wish more people were aware of how horrendous some animal's lives are. They might be more inclined to buy meat, eggs, and milk from family farms. I have a lot of abandoned factory farms near my house, and they are so depressing to look at. However, organizations like PETA who think all farm animals (even ones living on small, well-managed farms) need to be "rescued" makes me mad. Like when they release animals at county fairs. Wish i could help more......

PETA is a horribly corrupt organization that likes people to think that it cares about animals health when in reality they euthanize hundreds of cats and dogs. https://www.petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/

 

[FathertoFeathers]

I know it’s incredibly sad. I now only adopt or rescue all of my pets. I’m also now vegan after lots of research and learning. Plus I just morally can’t do it.

Im vegetarian. After seeing the horrors of factory farming I couldn't do it anymore. I encourage all of the friends I have to eat eggs sold by people they know. I sell my duck eggs to a few people as a alternative to eating factory raised animals.

 

[Peepsi]

I just really needed to vent on this because it gets harder and harder every day to think about.

As I am sure you all know hens are being kept in confinement the size of a sheet of paper! Now I don't know how far back someone thought well this seems humane. Yes, I know its a very productive way of doing things. BUT as us backyard poultry fans we know what a happy hen is like. And they are usually pretty productive.

I just can't set my mind around how owners of factory farms think about animals. They think chickens are just their property to be put in a cage. And expected to live as if in jail. Being fed corn etc. To produce an egg EVERY day. I can't believe they can just walk in see 1,000s of tortured chickens staring back and think. "well everything looks good here!" We know the joys of watching hens frolicking in the field. Have a dust bath. Eating a worm. Sleeping on there roosts at night. THAT'S life. Not this jarring picture right here! Notice its almost all dark!

And then the worst part there killed a few months after there highest production. And that is SOME unhealthy meat.

So If you can adopt some Battery hens and give them the life they missed!
So thanks to everyone for reading this I just really needed to vent. There is a lot more I could have said.

It's sad, and I wish those hens had a better life, but as someone who was living well under the poverty level for most of her adult life, I am thankful for eggs being under $2 a dozen. Poor people cannot afford a $4 box of eggs on a regular basis and eggs have so much important nutrition for people who may only eat one meal a day.

So I'm torn. Cheap eggs that come from battery hens help feed poor people. It costs companies more to give the chickens enough space, which in turn, raises the price of eggs, which becomes less affordable for people living in poverty, or on a fixed income.

When I was poor, I couldn't afford to have chickens. I was renting a room in someone else's apartment...I did not even have a place to keep a chicken. I had one main meal and a snack per day. Eggs, oatmeal and spaghetti made up a large portion of those meals.

So yeah, I wish we could have the best of both worlds...happy hens and cheap eggs

 

[FathertoFeathers]

It's sad, and I wish those hens had a better life, but as someone who was living well under the poverty level for most of her adult life, I am thankful for eggs being under $2 a dozen. Poor people cannot afford a $4 box of eggs on a regular basis and eggs have so much important nutrition for people who may only eat one meal a day.

So I'm torn. Cheap eggs that come from battery hens help feed poor people. It costs companies more to give the chickens enough space, which in turn, raises the price of eggs, which becomes less affordable for people living in poverty, or on a fixed income.

When I was poor, I couldn't afford to have chickens. I was renting a room in someone else's apartment...I did not even have a place to keep a chicken. I had one main meal and a snack per day. Eggs, oatmeal and spaghetti made up a large portion of those meals.

So yeah, I wish we could have the best of both worlds...happy hens and cheap eggs

I saw a very interesting documentary called "cowspiracy" where he does the math and finds out with all of the grains that we grow for livestock we could feed the entire world.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Im vegetarian. After seeing the horrors of factory farming I couldn't do it anymore. I encourage all of the friends I have to eat eggs sold by people they know. I sell my duck eggs to a few people as a alternative to eating factory raised animals.

I agree. Even though I am vegan for the most part, I will eat my own eggs or food made with eggs that come from my birds. It’s the factory farming that kills me.

 

[TheChiggens]

I know it’s incredibly sad. I now only adopt or rescue all of my pets. I’m also now vegan after lots of research and learning. Plus I just morally can’t do it.

It was hard at first but after a lot of reassure it very EASY to turn vegetarian.

 

[TheChiggens]

To the best of my knowledge...."Free-range" by industry standards means they have access to outside, they are still kept jam-packed in a warehouse-just like "cage-free", but who don't have outside access. Only "pasture raised" have more outside room to roam

Yah this is considered free range.

Also guidelines for "free range"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2...-new-free-range-egg-guidelines-lo_a_22059101/

SO sad... But I guess when you treat an animal like all its there to do is produce for mankind. Than it would be easy to do this.


In my opinion free range should always be out in the fresh air were they have contact to the natural world without being crammed together.