What’s Wrong With Eggs?

BY SOFO ARCHON

People like to eat eggs, but most of them don’t know how they’re produced.

Do you? If not, let me tell you.

Nearly all eggs sold in the market come from the egg industry—an industry that treats chickens merely as egg-producing machines, exploiting tens of billions for a single purpose: to sell their eggs and make a profit. And the way it achieves that is… horrifying.

Here’s what industrial egg production looks like:

When chicks hatch, males and females are immediately separated. All male chicks are killed—usually by being ground up alive, gassed, or suffocated in plastic bags. Why? Because the egg industry considers male chicks “worthless,” since they don’t lay eggs and are a different breed from chickens raised for meat.

But female chicks have it much worse: once they grow up, they are usually confined in massive barns with tens of thousands of other chickens, crammed into tiny cages where they live and walk in their own excrement. Many become sick or die in these filthy conditions. To reduce disease and prevent deaths, hens are routinely pumped with antibiotics.

For the rest of their lives, hens have their eggs constantly taken from them. Naturally, hens lay eggs only until their nest is full, but by removing their eggs, this process is interrupted, and they feel the instinctual urge to lay more. This relentless cycle is exhausting and harmful: constant egg production depletes hens of calcium and other vital nutrients, causing osteoporosis and numerous painful health problems.

Due to the continuous pressure their laying organs have to endure, some hens even die in the process. Those who don’t, are exploited day after day for their eggs. But their life doesn’t last for long: once their production wanes, they all end up in the slaughterhouse, where they are thanked for all their hard work by having their throats slit. This usually happens when they are just about eighteen months old, even though chickens can live up to eight years in natural conditions.

This is the truth about the egg industry—a truth most people don’t know, because it has been intentionally hidden from us. Now that you know, you can make informed choices to help end the industry: refuse its products and raise awareness about the unbelievable cruelty it causes. The only question is: will you?