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The World's Worst Prison
Don’t let the routine confuse you.
Think that all this was a daily routine for every one in six humans in the world. Well, it is the reality of more than a billion chickens every year. They are not less important and not less capable of suffering than humans. The world is not just an unfair and cruel place, everything is rotten from the roots. Wake up! a world which in battery cages could have been invented, is a world that unlegislated them won’t cure anything. The world is too sick, and life itself is the disease. Battery cages are a symptom. One of the severest, but still a symptom.
Even a vegan world (with no doubt a dream come true for all of us) is not enough. Twisted minds that invented something like a battery cage should be eliminated. Otherwise they might do it again. We used to all the factory farming devices, but if you stop and think about it, it is pure wickedness.
Don’t desert the 100 billion (per year) “birth to death” suffering creatures.Fixated conceptions that have been pervaded to our brains are preventing us from rational thinking. All our lives we hear that life is a superior value. Most people are not trying to challenge or criticize that conception. We were taught that no matter what we do, no matter what is the meaning of everything, no matter what is the quality of our or anyone’s life, the most important thing is to live.
The flinching from the only one solution idea is selfish. Humans live like kings
compare to laying hens, broilers, laboratory rats, fish, dairy cows etc. they won’t
give up their luxury lives. They won’t give up their control and power. Power is
addictive. Therefore things are not going to change.
You will continue to hear the same ridicules excuses from by passers, politicians and
the media.
You’ll continue begging them for a 5 seconds item.
Don’t give up on the total elimination before trying. All of the world’s suffer depends on us. Don’t let them down. We won’t give up until our last day or until we succeed. We have already understood that there are no more excuses it is time for the real thing.
Through modern humanity's obsession with efficiency and productivity,
a cruel, oppressive, and destructive system for managing farm animals has
been created, and this system takes its toll on every part of animal's lives.
Immense, frightening, smelling of death and disease. They sit on vast
stretches of land, countless rows of giant metal structures protruding
into the sky. From a distance, you can get an eerie sense of the overwhelming
number of birds who live day after day, minute after minute, inside the long
windowless sheds. But the hens are invisible; there is no big sign proudly
announcing that this enormous factory, stinking for miles and spilling
forth a lake of manure, is where your eggs come from. The eggs seen in
stores were laid by hens kept in misery, pain, frustration, filth and suffer!
Most humans don’t spare a moment of thought for the hen that laid their breakfast. They still believe or convincing themselves that chickens are walking around free and voluntarily give up their eggs for human's sake. Forget it! The industrialization of the chickens began before they were even born by artificial insemination, which is a delicate way to call a rape.
Before the artificial insemination process starts, the farmer restrains the male bird and forcibly obtains semen by squeezing the bird's sex organ. In many cases, this procedure causes bleeding as a result of injuries to the gutter tissue or the sex organ. Next, the female is held down while the inseminator presses strongly on her stomach and back to accentuate her vagina. Then he inserts a tube into the bulged vagina with a circulatory movement. The tube is attached to a syringe containing the semen. This is how chicks come into the world.
The chicken hens are born in incubators inside a hatchery where the female
chicks are vaccinated against contagious diseases, by automated mechanical
injectors, some 7,000-8,000 birds a day at a single hatchery, or 2,500-3,500
chicks every hour per worker. They never see the sun.
They are reared intensively from birth and upon reaching sexual maturity at
the age of 18 weeks, they are sent to battery farms where they are crammed
into cages, stacked in tiers.
The Battery Hen spends all her laying life in a cage, crammed in with three
and up to ten other birds. She stands for life on a space equivalent of less
than three-quarters of the surface of a standard sheet of A4 paper.
Their bodies so tightly compressed that when a single hen attempts to move the
entire population of the cage feels the pressure and responds with an explosion
of shrill cries.
They cannot find a single normal body posture during their whole life.
Try to imagine the frustration, the boredom, and the anger that this system creates.
The hens are crowded so tightly, that they cannot even stretch their wings or legs, and
they cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns or social needs. Constantly rubbing
against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are
covered with bruises and abrasions.
They are caged like this every minute of every day through their entire lives. The
only exit is for the slaughterhouse.
The egg industry is now almost completely automated. Feeding, lighting, temperature,
and even moulting
are controlled by machines; nothing is left to nature. Eggs roll onto a conveyor belt,
which carries them out of the hen house. Conveyor belts also deliver food and water to
the cages, which are stacked in several tiers.
Dim electric lights are kept on for 16 or 17 hours a day, artificially stimulating the hens'
biological rhythms of reproduction. During 'lights on' in a battery cage facility,
the atmosphere is one of intense distress. Feeders are operating, which leaves hens
battling for a spot at the front of their tiny, overcrowded cage.
Those too weak to move towards the feeding tray lie silently on the wire floor of their lifelong prison, slowly starving to death, trampled by their cage mates. From rows of cages stacked floor to ceiling, the hens cry out.The air is dense with the screams of thousands of birds who are suffering extreme physical and psychological pain.
Battery hens live in a poisoned atmosphere. Toxic ammonia rises from the decomposing uric acid in the manure pits beneath the cages to cause ammonia-burned eyes and chronic respiratory disease in millions of hens.
The feet and legs of chickens, designed for an outdoor life of scratching the
ground in search of food, contain complex joints full of tiny bones, tendons,
muscles, and ligaments. However they never stand on anything but a wire cage floor.
The wire floors of battery cages, coupled with the fact that the hens are unable
to properly exercise their legs and scratch, results in painful, often crippling
deformities of the legs and feet. Hens' claws, which are meant to be short and blunt
from use, grow long and twisted. In some cases the claws literally grow around the
floor of the cage, immobilizing the hen completely. Eventually she will starve to death.
Under natural conditions, hens instinctively display complex behavioral patterns involving perching, foraging, nesting, and dust-bathing. Close confinement in cages denies the opportunity to perform any of these activities. Deprivation causes chronic suffering and social conflict amongst cage mates, including bullying and feather-pecking.
The combination of forced rapid growth and excessive weight causes chronic, painful lameness and abnormal gait. The bird’s body grows too fast for the bone plates to accommodate. Consequently, the birds develop angular bone deformities, Tibiadyschondroplasia, and “kinky back,” in which vertebrae snap and put pressure on the spinal chord, causing paralysis.
Dust-bathing is performed to improve plumage condition, and rid feathers of skin, mites, dirt, excess oil etc. hens peck at the ground, then squat in the dirt and shake vigorously to work the dust up into their feathers. Birds are so motivated to dust bathe that they even attempt to dust bathe on wire cage floors often hurt themselves.
Hens are also motivated to scratch and forage for food. In natural conditions, they may spend much of the day foraging. This behaviour is frustrated in battery cages, which can lead to abnormal behaviour (feather pecking)..
Hens are strongly motivated to perch. Spending third of the day perching and almost the entire night. It is not a preference - it is a need. It has been found that when perching is possible there is a reduction of feather pecking and feather damage, and when it is not (in all commercial egg industries including "free range") there is increased aggression, reduced bone strength, impaired foot condition, and higher feather loss.
Due to their barren and monotonous surroundings battery hens are easily startled and are prone to hysteria. Hens become frantic and try to flap their wings and hide at the rear of their cages. This can spread through whole sheds and lead to a high incidence of injuries.
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In battery cage facilities, eggs are not laid, they are manufactured, because hens do not naturally
lay eggs at a rate which would profit businesses to a satisfactory degree,
their bodies are manipulated and forced to produce an abnormal number of eggs.
Hens are forced to produce 10 times the amount of eggs that they would produce
naturally. Each hen produces about 300 eggs per year. This is twice as many eggs
as a hen did fifty years ago, and it compares with only 12-20 eggs produced each
year by their wild ancestors. The chickens are nothing
but egg machines. Like hens in the wild, modern hens need a safe, private place to lay eggs, something which is deprived from them of course, when sharing a cage with so many other birds. The process can take up to an hour or more, during which time they will attempt to hide from their cage mates. The frustration often makes them aggressive. Hens lay eggs because it is bodily function which they have no control over, not because they are "happy". The frustration often makes them aggressive. Hens lay eggs because it is bodily function which they have no control over, not because they are "happy". With no space or cover, the mere act of laying in a battery house becomes an ordeal in itself. Battery hens are also denied the opportunity to perform normal pre-laying activity such as nest building. The stress and frustration which can follow may result in stereotypical behavior. The frustration of pre-laying nesting behavior is one of the most severe behavioral problems of hens in battery cages. Battery hens suffer from the reproductive maladies that afflict female birds deprived of exercise: masses and bits of eggs clog their oviducts, which become inflamed and paralyzed; eggs are formed that are too big to be laid; uteruses "prolapse" pushing through the vagina of small birds forced to strain day after day to expel huge eggs. The battery cage has created an ugly new disease of laying hens called fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome, characterized by an enlarged, fat, friable liver covered with blood clots, and pale combs and wattles covered with dandruff. Calcium deficiency and osteoporosis are rampant among hens on egg factories - caused by intensive egg production and inadequate exercise. A hen will use a quantity of calcium for yearly egg production that is greater than her entire skeleton by 30-fold or more. Inadequate calcium results in broken bones, paralysis, and even death. 35% of all mortalities during the laying cycle are attributable to bone fragility. Hens have a 'pecking order', which refers to the hierarchy natural in a flock. In the cages,
frustrated natural urges lead to more aggressive pecking, and weaker hens who cannot escape
may suffer.
Debeaking is carried out to reduce this behaviour, but it is not a solution. Debeaking is a painful procedure, which causes chicks extreme shock, and
some may even die. Pain is immediate, causing chicks to react visibly to
the blade, but there are also long-term effects because the beak contains
sensitive nerves, which are exposed by cutting. As the beak is tiny and the
process mechanical and executed with "production line" speed, sometimes too
much beak can be removed. Debeaking is done to offset the effects of the compulsive pecking that can afflict birds designed by nature to roam, scratch, and peck at the ground all day, not sit in prison. Debeaking is a painful injury deliberately inflicted by humans in an attempt to 'adapt the bird' to intensive systems. The egg industry justifies the cruelty of debeaking by saying it prevents "cannibalism" among the hens. This is a misuse of the word; chickens do not and will not eat each other's flesh. Egg producers and those who support their practices use the word cannibalism to reassure potentially concerned consumers that debeaking is necessary for the safety and well-being of the hens. While cannibalism does not in fact occur, hens in factory farms do display a distorted behavior of defense that is caused by abnormal levels of stress, crowding, and the restriction of normal activities, which is what they experience during life in a cage. If five humans were squashed into a phone booth, they would probably become aggressive after a few minutes. Due to the stressful and unsanitary living conditions, sickness and diseases are inherent problems in factory farm systems, where birds are forced to live in filth and extreme confinement. In an attempt to minimize costs, and maximize profit, even the sickest of hens are denied veterinary care. Premature death is a common occurrence on factory farms. Many hens meet a cruel and prolonged death when their bodies become lodged underneath the feeding trays or trapped in the wire of the cages. With no escape, these hens must endure the constant physical assault of being trampled by the other hens. Other hens succumb to untreated sickness, disease, or injures. Numerous dead birds are overlooked by management, who have neither the time nor inclination to remove the corpses. Severely decomposed hens were discovered in cages with live hens. The hens were left to slowly rot and decompose in their cages. Their cage mates are forced to live with the stench this creates. Factory farms treat the hens’ lives as mere commodities, to be disposed of once they are no longer useful. Forced molting is one of the most gruesome practices in animal agriculture. It entails depriving birds of food and water for up to three weeks as a way to stimulate egg-laying in hens whose bodies are already depleted. The forced molt is a final way to exploit hens before they become "worthless" as egg-laying machines, at which point they are slaughtered for low-grade meat. If the average person decided to withhold food from their dog or cat for days or weeks, that person would probably be charged with cruelty to animals and the news media would take the story and run with it. Yet, each year the egg industry intentionally deprives millions of hens of food for up to ten days. But the cameras aren't rolling on the hens' behalf and no one is going to jail. This speaks volumes about the way our society views animals used for food. These animals are unprotected against the cruelest practices. The practice of starving hens for profit is known as forced-molting. Molting literally refers to the replacement of old feathers by new ones. In nature, birds replace all their feathers in the course of a year to maintain good plumage at all times. A natural molt often happens at the onset of winter, when nature discourages the hatching of chicks. The hen stops laying eggs and concentrates her energies on staying warm and growing new feathers. The egg industry exploits this natural process by forcing an entire flock to molt simultaneously. This is done to manipulate the marketplace and to pump a few hundred more eggs out of exhausted hens when it is deemed cheaper to "recycle" them rather than immediately slaughter them after a year of relentless egg-laying on a calcium-deficient diet. At the end of the laying period, the hens are flung from the battery to the transport cages by their wings, legs, head, feet, or whatever is grabbed. Many bones are broken. Chicken "stuffers" are paid for speed, not gentleness. Half-naked from feather loss and terrorized by a lifetime of abuse, hens in transit embody a state of fear so severe that many are paralyzed by the time they reach the slaughterhouse. At slaughter, the hens are a mass of broken bones, oozing abscesses, bright red bruises, and internal hemorrhaging. making them fit only for shredding into products that hide the true state of their flesh and their lives, such as chicken soups and pies, school lunches and other food programs developed by the egg industry to dump dead laying hens onto consumers in diced up form. Ironically, the first time battery-caged hens are able to flap their wings is when they struggle against rough handling as they are transported to the slaughterhouse. The first time they experience the outdoors is when they are sent to the slaughterhouse. Since battery hens are bred to be lean, to eat little and lay a lot, the males
- when day old chicks which are too skinny for meat, and unable to lay, are not
profitable – therefore unwanted. There is no room for sentiment at all, if it depends on humans. They prove again and again that their profits, taste preference, convenience, entertainment etc, is much more important for them than anything. Most of them are not even willing to hear the facts, and listen to the arguments, not to mention to stop financing animal abuse. No one deserves to live like that. As long as humans exist, battery cages and other torturing methods will exist…. Only One Solution
Updated in Sep 2003
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