Speaking about the suffering of farm animals and birds, often hear the argument that the production of eggs is not related to the operation and the death of the animals. "What's wrong with eating eggs, if the chicken in any case they wait?" - Such arguments can be heard even from those who refused the consumption of meat and fish.
Unfortunately, many people still do not know what to farm animals and birds are no longer graze in meadows, do not walk in freedom ... They are kept in small cages and pens, most of them do not know what fresh air and sunlight, they will never see their children ...
How to get eggs?
The vast majority of people live in huge cities, and proportionate to the number of eggs invented .... poultry.
Under natural conditions, the ritual laying eggs for chicken surrounded by a sense of joy and satisfaction. Hatching eggs, layers them periodically reverses. 10-20 times a day, it comes down from the nest in order to pull the wings, drink some water and ate food, celebrate the natural need.
Chickens at the poultry farm into a state of panic when it's time to carry: they do not have to retire and build a nest. Crammed in small cages, hens are forced to lay eggs in a noisy, full of flies, stinking "concentration camp", sandwiched between the bodies of other chickens and metal bars. These chickens do not live more than two years - after the deadline egg production is reduced, and the birds are sent to slaughter. Village chickens, which, although living in the wild, also go under the knife after 2-3 years of life, when their content is not economically viable.
Battery system - a concentration camp for the birds
Factory chickens are in small cages so that each bird has an area the size of a little less than one album sheet. That is, they can not even straighten the wings! As a result, in order to make any movement, birds have to get over their relatives or repel them. Wire floor grates birds legs, causing sores and wounds. If laying hen was trapped between the neighbors, or if her foot stuck in the floor grid, it can not reach the food and slowly die and remain in place, still other compression. Such a system of content, called battery leads to the development of abnormal behavior in birds: they pull out their own feathers and peck to death the weaker birds. To reduce the number of such cases, cut off part of the chicken beak and sear the stump with a hot iron, which is very painful for them. Biology of birds is that the beak is a huge number of nerve endings. The effects of stress suffered by the birds by firing persist for life. Burnt hard beak to eat and not to clean the feathers and wings to get rid of parasitic insects. In addition to operations in females obesklyuvlivaniya electric knife cut two fingers, while the males are used to cover - scallops.
In nature, between the chicken and the chicken is strong. Approximately 24 hours before the release of the shell begins to cheep chicken inside, letting the mother and brothers of readiness to be born. Since then the relationship between the mother and chicks going on for two months. During this time, the chicks follow the mother around, preparing for the night under her wings. Poultry farm hens never see their chicks. The eggs are placed in incubators giant. When the chicks are born, they are divided by gender. Bettas can not carry the eggs and are not suitable for growing on meat, because for this purpose there is a special, rapidly gaining weight broiler breed. For this reason, the males are sent "in the flow". Fluffy day-old chicks cocks with "defective" sisters one by one sent to processor-mill where the spinning blades chop their live bodies into small pieces, which then appear on the shelves as food for cats and dogs. Often simply collect chickens in plastic bags where they slowly suffocate, and then thrown in the trash bags.
Growing broiler chickens
In broiler chickens, which are grown for meat, bone growth has not kept pace with the growth of muscles, and legs bent under the weight of the body. This was the result of selective breeding. 4/5 chickens have broken bones or other bone defects. Chickens be hurt and they are sitting on crooked legs. They can not get to the food and water birds are immunized against a variety of infectious diseases in the 2500-3500 pace! chickens per hour per worker. It is ironic that such a superspeed "immunization" is often the main cause of the spread of infection.
As for the nutritional properties of eggs
Eggs represent a considerable threat to human health, as to feed the chickens add countless antibiotics, pesticides and other chemicals of one egg yolk contains the maximum allowable daily rate of cholesterol - 200 mg! Those nutrients are found in eggs can be obtained from plant foods. The amount of vitamin B12 in eggs from poultry farms is 20 times lower than in eggs from chickens living in the wild. Contained in chicken eggs in a lot of cholesterol is the cause of various cardiovascular diseases in humans. Another danger is the high consumption of eggs likely to be infected with salmonella. Scientists of the world have long shown that the consumption of meat and animal products is harmful to human health.
Planetary destruction, death from starvation
Production of meat and animal products is directly related to environmental pollution, deforestation and loss of life from starvation. The amount of manure produced by the animals under intensive cultivation is such that the land simply can not absorb it. Fresh water reserves which once seemed inexhaustible, is now becoming scarce. 70% of water consumption goes to agriculture. To feed a vegetarian requires 16 times less land than a meat eater. After all, 80 percent of vegetable crops are fed to livestock. And this at a time millions of people in the world die of hunger. For example, in 1989 the world starved to death 60 million. If, for example, Americans reduced meat consumption by only 10 percent, saved enough grain to feed these people! If you do not care about the chickens and other farm animals and birds, if you care about our planet, if you want to be healthy - give up the consumption of eggs, milk, meat and other animal products.
Remember, a by-product of egg production is the brutal killing of chickens - cocks and extreme violence over hens. Become a vegetarian, and you get out of the cycle of destruction of the planet and animal abuse! Hen battery system. Fetid cells, overcrowding, stuffiness, disease - in these conditions live their short life battery hens. That price get eggs. Each hen spends all his life, occupying the space, the smaller the size of the usual album sheet. In order to make any movement, birds have to get over their relatives or repel them. Wire floor grates birds legs, causing sores and wounds. Birds cut off part of the beak and sear the stump with a hot iron, which is very painful for them. The beak is a huge number of nerve endings. The effects of stress suffered by the birds by firing persist for life. In broiler chickens bone growth has not kept pace with the growth of muscles, and legs bent under the weight of the body. This was the result of selective breeding. 4/5 chickens have broken bones or other bone defects. After 6 weeks of life of broilers at slaughter ends.
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