Headline: The Hill, 3/7/2025
Kelvey Vander Hart opines:
Looking at the average American egg farm, it is easy to see how these facilities become infectious disease factories. At the end of 2022, the U.S. had 308 million commercial egg-laying hens. According to World Animal Protection, more than 95 percent of these hens live in factory farming conditions.
Chickens hatched on factory egg farms lead horrifying lives. Male chicks are nearly always killed, often thrown into grinders while they are still alive. That’s awful enough, but female chicks have a dismal life ahead of them. As they grow, they are often held in battery cages, which are small wire enclosures where several birds are crammed together. According to PETA, the average factory farmed egg-laying hen spends her life in a space no larger than a piece of printer paper. Hens are not just in close contact with the other birds in their cage — battery cages are often stacked so that feces and urine from the top layers of cages falls into other enclosures. [emphasis added]
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