Suffocation – One of Many Cruelties You Pay For When You Buy Eggs

Eggs Suffocate and Kill Make Chicks | Meat Your Future


Egg laying hens are bred in large hatcheries. They have been artificially selected to lay an unnaturally large number of eggs for human consumption (which takes a debilitating toll on them over their short lives).

In addition, about one-half of the chicks bred at these hatcheries are born male. These baby male chicks are deemed worthless by the egg industry because they never produce eggs and were not bred to grow quickly enough to be considered economically viable for their “meat”.

So, these baby male chicks are disposed of, by the hundreds of millions each year — most commonly by either being ground-up alive in “macerators” or, as shown here, thrown into garbage bags to slowly but surely die from suffocation or lack of food and water.

What a tragic and sickening end to the very short lives of countless millions of baby animals who we’ve breed into existence for a completely unnecessary food.

Of course, their sisters don’t have it much better, enduring short lives of having their female reproductive systems exploited for eggs — usually under horrific, filthy and crowded conditions — and then ultimately being killed too at a fraction of their young lives just as soon as their egg production declines when they are no longer considered profitable.

It’s not always intuitive how eating foods like eggs (or milk), which don’t actually contain an animal’s flesh, involve so much suffering and death. But, in the end, commoditizing animals in any way inevitably leads to immense harm — whether the animal is being used for flesh, eggs, milk, leather, wool, fur, or any other purpose.

Additionally, with respect to eggs, they are not even a healthy food due to their high cholesterol content and other problematic nutritional aspects (please see our video “Rethinking Eggs” from Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa for more on this topic).

For all these reasons, as well as to withdrawal your support for one of the most environmentally devastating activities on the planet, please go vegan today to remove your participation from the unjust mass killing of these innocent and vulnerable animals.


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