Hatchery horrors
The group Mercy for Animals has posted the results of its new undercover investigation of a huge hatchery for egg-laying hens, where about 300,000 chicks hatch each day. At every step of the way, these babies are treated like unfeeling things, or like trash. They are roughly, mechanically separated from their eggshells, then sorted by sex. The females have parts of their beaks cut off; and the males—useless from the egg industry’s point of view—are tossed into machines that grind them up alive.
These horrors are only the start of a lifetime of suffering for egg-laying hens. An MFA investigation earlier this year captured evidence of abuses of hens at an egg farm.
These are shocking videos—wrenching and unbearable. And they should be required viewing for anyone who eats eggs.
