WeR1FamilyEgg - An Extravagance
March 23rd 2008 15:36
What is more of concern to me, is how much sufferings it inflicts to eggs-laying chicken just to get a dozen of eggs piled up. Although eating eggs are not killing in its literal sense, but by demanding eggs, i see that we create so much pain and suffering for chicken. Therefore, i shall re-consider taking eggs in my diet.
Below is an outlook on what kind of hell that chicken goes through just to satisfy our needs of eggs. They live in hell, and humans are the devil, and are you one of the devil?
As excerpted from VEGETARIANISM For Your Body, Your Mind, Your Soul & Your Planet by H.H. Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji
Pg 12-13
— ever so sensitive for you are probably only a few months old.
Finally, imagine that this terror does not end when someone comes to open the door at the “lobby” door. Rather, it is your life. Every minute of every day, until you are fried up and served for dinner, with a side of mashed potatoes.
Why do they develop cancer and other diseases at such an exorbitant rate? Well, one reason might be their diet. Their manure is routinely recycled back into their feed and their water is frequently the liquid waste from manure pits. "
Pg 14-16
In addition to their beaks, hens frequently have their toes and claws cut off naturally without any anesthesia) so that these do not be come stuck in the metal wires of their crates.
These crates are piled high on top of each other. In this way, not only are they denied space to move, let alone roam around, but when one chicken goes to the bath room, it falls through the crates onto the chickens be low. The crates are never cleaned and the chickens never see the sunlight; the light from the artificial bulbs is enough to keep them functioning.
Additionally, if egg production decreases, the hens are forced into a process called “forced molting.” In forced molting the hens are deprived of food and water in order to start a new cycle (for those who survive the starvation). The hens are given no food for approximately 14 days and no water for 3 days. During this time they lose up to 1/3 of their body weight and their feathers fall off.
Depending on the size of the farm, large numbers of these eggs are actually allowed to hatch so that new hens can be born. However, at least 50% of the chicks will be boys and there is little use for roosters in the egg business since they cannot grow up to lay eggs. These boys can not be sold to chicken farms to become broiler chick ens due to the fact that the breeds of chickens used on egg farms and broiler chicken farms are distinctly different. Therefore, with no use for them, these egg farms system artificially execute every one of the baby male chicks by suffocated them in garbage bags or throwing them alive into large meat grinders. Then, they become recycled feed for the hens and other livestock. "
NB: Similar hellish life occurs with livestocks such as pigs, cows, sheeps and others in different variation of 'tortures' and 'hell' including non-anesthetic castration. Vegetarianism is a great and honorable way of living, many philosophers and wise thinkers have chose this way of living. Me myself have been living as vegetarian over years and i had reap much more than i could imagine before, particularly noting the ability to think clearly, to tune in to higher vibration of life, greater compassion and empathy. and being able to grasp inspirations that comes lighting my mind here and then.
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Thank you for your comment.
I would agree if one can obtain egg without inflicting any suffering to the hen.
However i think it may prove very difficult to satisfy even the market demand of a single household if all producers raise the hens in natural conventional old-times method.
In any way, it would be much more convenience and beneficial raising crops than livestock, with the same acre of land and much less energy, one can feed much more people.
" If you take 2.5 acres of land and use it to grow potatoes, you can fulfill the nutritional requirements of 22 people. If you use
it to grow rice, you can fulfill the nutritional requirements of 19 people. But, if you use it to produce chicken (including the food for the chicken and raising the chickens), you can only fulfill the nutritional requirements of 2 people. Even worse, if you use it to produce eggs or beef (including the food for the hens or cows and the factory itself), you can only fulfill the nutritional requirements of 1 person. With so many people starving in the world, how can we take our land and use it so irresponsibly?"
It still proves that eating animal or even eggs are still an extravagance in the midst of our hunger-stricken world.