LIFE ON AN EGG FARM
Ninety-five percent of the eggs sold in the US are produced under intensive factory farming conditions where the birds are kept packed together in cages their entire lives. The crowding is so tight that they can't all sit down at the same time. Since these birds are territorial by nature, they peck at each other. In a cage, the weaker bird can't escape, and they could be pecked at until they were bloody or even to death.
DE-BEAKING
Birds killing each other isn't economically advantageous to the egg industry, so each bird is put through a de-beaking machine. Chickens have nerves running through their beaks. De-beaking is not like clipping a fingernail for a human, but more closely akin to cutting off the tip of a person's nose without any anesthesia .
FORCED MOLTING
Forced molting is a particularly inhumane standard practice. It involves deprivng hens of food and water, for seven up to 28 days to force the hen’s body to produce as many eggs as possible before they are killed. This process is so cruel that many countries and a few states have banned it.
MALE CHICKS
Males chicks have no value on an egg-laying farm. They can't lay eggs and they don't grow large enough to profitably sell for their meat. After being hatched they are selected out and shredded alive in a large industrial grinder (maceration).
