Egg productionincluding free-range and organicinvolves multiple cruelties, such as the killing of 300 million newborn chicks each year in the United States. Eliminating eggs from your diet is easy. There are numerous, widely available, tasty vegan (animal-free) alternatives to eggs.
Quick Facts
- Standard egg industry practice: newborn male chicks at hen hatcheries are gassed, suffocated, or thrown into a woodchipper.
- Discarded male chicks are ground up into food that is fed to the hensso the hens may be eating their own brothers.
- At the end of their economically productive lifein other words, if they're not laying enough eggshens are killed. They're hung on shackles, knifed in the throat, and dunked in scalding water to loosen their feathers. Due to insufficient stunning, many are paralyzed yet alive and conscious throughout the entire slaughter process, finally dying from a combination of drowning and bleeding.
- Eggs come out of the same hole through which hens defecate.
- Abundant undercover video footage shows bored or frustrated poultry slaughterhouse workers pulling the heads and wings off live birds, slamming them against a wall, and crushing them to death with their boots.
- Baking without eggs is a cinch. Eggs are generally used as a binder, and there are plenty of other foods, including special egg replacer products, that work as well or better.
- For 95 percent of you, adoping a vegan diet (free of animal-derived foods) will be easier than you think. Key to success: ethical committment. There are tons of books, web sites (like this one), and local groups to help you make this transition, and get the most out of your new humane diet.
- When you go vegan, it's a great feeling knowing you're eating as moral a diet as possible; that you're no longer making excuses or going into denial about unnecessarily contributing to the suffering and killing of animals; that you're no longer paying others to breed animals, manipulate their bodies, and kill them as soon as economically profitable.
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