-Over 90% of the eggs sold in Australia are caged.
-A battery hen spends her entire life laying cramped inside a shared cage.
-Inside the cage it is impossible for her to walk or exercise.
-In Australia, caged eggs come from the 10.5 million caged hens in battery farms.
-Each hen’s floor area is only about 3/4 of the size of an A4 sheet of paper.
-Stressed and over crowded hens peck each other. Cannibalism is common. To stop this, a heated blade is used to cut half the upper beak and one third of the lower beak - but chickens are often found with more savage mutilations than that required by industry.
-Half of all chicks born are male. Considered useless, they are killed by crushing, mincing or suffocation at 1 day old.
-To produce more eggs artificial lighting is used to trick the hens into unnatural laying cycles. This increases prolapse and tumours, and produces acute calcium deficiency.
-In a natural environment a hen lives for 10 years - A battery hen will usually last for 1 year.
-Stop buying caged eggs. Tell the supermarket chains, the government, and the farmers that Australians find battery farming disgusting. I urge everyone to reblog this to promote awareness of animal cruelty and to help stop it.this needs to be reblogged and acted upon by everyone. this cruelty needs to stop now.
