Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages. ( Archived) (44)

May 7, 2008 10:24 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
albion
albionalbionRochdale, UK7 Threads 2 Polls 28 Posts
Across India, approximately 100 million laying hens are living out their lives in small, wire battery cages. These cages are so tiny that the birds cannot fully stretch their wings, walk, or engage in many other natural behaviors. The majority of the eggs produced by these suffering birds are destined for the plates of middle and upper class consumers in urban areas.

Consuming battery eggs is cruel and unnecessary. There are less inhumane, cage-free systems for producing eggs. There are also many vegetarian alternatives to consuming eggs.

You can help stop the use of battery cages and greatly reduce the suffering of millions of egg-laying hens. Sign this "no battery eggs" pledge and encourage your friends and family to do the same. Working together, we have the power to make a difference for animals.



Thank you
Ben handshake
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May 7, 2008 10:25 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
shipoker55
shipoker55shipoker55St. Petersburg, Florida USA211 Threads 2 Polls 9,362 Posts
doh
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May 7, 2008 10:38 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
martyg
martygmartygDublin/Kildare, Dublin Ireland55 Threads 3 Polls 4,322 Posts
doh doh
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May 7, 2008 10:40 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
kissmedeeply
kissmedeeplykissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada70 Threads 15,139 Posts
doh doh doh
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May 7, 2008 10:59 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
joanie04984
joanie04984joanie04984North Woods, Maine USA4 Threads 344 Posts
chicken
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May 7, 2008 11:06 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
friendsfirst
friendsfirstfriendsfirstBurbank, Illinois USA105 Threads 1 Polls 5,965 Posts
jaw drop jaw drop jaw drop
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May 7, 2008 11:09 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
morganlee
morganleemorganleeQawra, Majjistral Malta27 Threads 1 Polls 4,368 Posts
Hi Ben, people have been campaigning against this for many years, good luck in following what you believe to be right cheers
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May 7, 2008 11:29 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
Portiea
PortieaPortieaKonstanz, Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany93 Threads 11 Polls 4,000 Posts
morganlee: Hi Ben, people have been campaigning against this for many years, good luck in following what you believe to be right


What she said.thumbs up
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May 7, 2008 11:36 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
albion
albionalbionRochdale, UK7 Threads 2 Polls 28 Posts
Thanks for your support morganlee and everyone else who supports the ban on battery cages I hear that there is a law coming out in the future think 2012 and it will ban the use of battery cages in briton but would be nice to have the ban worldwide.

Ben handshake
morganlee: Hi Ben, people have been campaigning against this for many years, good luck in following what you believe to be right
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May 7, 2008 11:38 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
morganlee
morganleemorganleeQawra, Majjistral Malta27 Threads 1 Polls 4,368 Posts
albion: Thanks for your support morganlee and everyone else who supports the ban on battery cages I hear that there is a law coming out in the future think 2012 and it will ban the use of battery cages in briton but would be nice to have the ban worldwide.

Ben
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May 7, 2008 11:49 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
Wait a minute! This doesn't make much sense. Are you saying these cages are electrified? If so, why? The chickens are already confined in a cage what's the point of electrifying it? Electric fences don't work on chickens anyway because of their feathers.

I think this is nothing more than yet another PETA scam to get people to stop eating anything from animals. Anybody remember the one about KFC breeding chickens without feet or heads? What a load of BS. KFC doesn't even raise chickens, they buy them from hundreds of chicken farms.
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May 7, 2008 11:56 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
joanie04984
joanie04984joanie04984North Woods, Maine USA4 Threads 344 Posts
Ben,

I'm curious as to why you have taken up the cause of preventing inhumane practices in the production of eggs from chickens?

Do you have a farm that produces eggs or poultry for food? Or do you have friends who are chicken farmers? or do you own a flock of chickens?

I'm just curious grin
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May 7, 2008 11:59 AM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
morganlee
morganleemorganleeQawra, Majjistral Malta27 Threads 1 Polls 4,368 Posts
In the Uk this has been on going for many years, because of it's cruelty, as far as i'm aware the cages are not elecrtified, but the conditions are cruel.
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May 7, 2008 12:00 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
morganlee
morganleemorganleeQawra, Majjistral Malta27 Threads 1 Polls 4,368 Posts
meant to say the have been campaiging against it for many years doh
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May 7, 2008 12:05 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
controversy
controversycontroversyPortadown, Armagh Ireland10 Threads 347 Posts
Chicken for dinner tonite?grin

chicken
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May 7, 2008 12:08 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
morganlee
morganleemorganleeQawra, Majjistral Malta27 Threads 1 Polls 4,368 Posts
ooby_dooby: Wait a minute! This doesn't make much sense. Are you saying these cages are electrified? If so, why? The chickens are already confined in a cage what's the point of electrifying it? Electric fences don't work on chickens anyway because of their feathers.

I think this is nothing more than yet another PETA scam to get people to stop eating anything from animals. Anybody remember the one about KFC breeding chickens without feet or heads? What a load of BS. KFC doesn't even raise chickens, they buy them from hundreds of chicken farms.
I understand what you mean now, it is called Battery Farming just a terminology for the cages
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May 7, 2008 12:27 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
vonney
vonneyvonneyDublin, Ireland24 Threads 6,371 Posts
I say a show about the conditions these chickens are kept in, was horrendous have only purchased free range since
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May 7, 2008 12:29 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
skimpydoo
skimpydooskimpydooDublin, Ireland170 Threads 3 Polls 4,805 Posts
vonney: I say a show about the conditions these chickens are kept in, was horrendous have only purchased free range since


KFC are known to have used them in the past. Not sure if they still do.
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May 7, 2008 12:30 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
morganlee
morganleemorganleeQawra, Majjistral Malta27 Threads 1 Polls 4,368 Posts
vonney: I say a show about the conditions these chickens are kept in, was horrendous have only purchased free range since
Hi vonney, don't think it's clear to everyone know what it means, because it's not funny
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May 7, 2008 12:31 PM CST Help stop needless cruelty: Say NO to eggs from hens in battery cages.
vonney
vonneyvonneyDublin, Ireland24 Threads 6,371 Posts
morganlee: Hi vonney, don't think it's clear to everyone know what it means, because it's not funny


Yes I think your right hun, no one could possibly know about it and think its funny
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