Sadly the public is led to believe that “Cage Free” hens live a happy natural life. This is simply not so!

“Cage Free”/”Free Range” hens come from the same hatcheries that battery hens come from, all of their male brothers are killed by suffocation or being ground up alive, the girls themselves endure the same bodily manipulations and mutilations, and they ALL ultimately end up at the same slaughterhouses when their “production” declines.

I am often asked “Don’t you think it is still better that people buy Cage Free eggs rather than the others if they are going to buy eggs anyway?” I feel the person actually wants to believe that their consumer dollar is not paying for someone else to commit animal abuse when in fact it is – no matter what production means were used.

It is like asking if I think strangulation is better than suffocation – my answer is: Neither is an acceptable option. There is simply NO way to humanely produce eggs for human consumption. >>MORE