Venting About Factory Chicken Farming

[TheChiggens]

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.

 

[TheChiggens]

I hope you all understand...

 

[TheChiggens]

Also, this happens to meat birds which is just as sad.

 

[Nor-Cal Chickens]

How does one go about saving one of these hens?

 

[TheChiggens]

Ill give you some links shortly...

 

[FathertoFeathers]

I completely agree with you. I recently watched some documentaries about animal cruelty in places like this and its absolutely disgusting.

 

[AltonaAcres]

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......

 

[Nor-Cal Chickens]

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......

The old abandoned factory farms near you might seem depressing but look at it on the bright side.....they are closed and not imprisoning animals anymore.

 

[TheChiggens]

Yah!
although now it seems to leave around a lot of trash.
Factory farming still makes an impact on our earth long after its gone.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

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.