 (Chicken - Egg Production - 01) Egg laying hens
are packed into 'battery cages' which are lined up in rows in huge factory
warehouses. They are left in these cages for up to two years. Such inhumane
treatment of other living beings is evil. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 02) This is another
look at the hens in a battery cage. Notice the poor condition of their feathers.
By constantly rubbing against their wire cages, egg laying hens suffer from
severe feather loss. This is a human-caused condition! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 03) Practically all
egg laying chickens in the U.S. live in crowded wire battery cages which are
lined up in rows and stacked in tiers. Simply because humans have the power to
treat chickens with such cruelty, doesn't make it right or just. Evil is evil,
no matter how we try to excuse it. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 04) Standing on
slanted wire floors, battery caged laying hens commonly suffer from foot and leg
maladies. To these egg farmers, the suffering of the chickens is of little or no
importance - if it allows the eggs to automatically roll out of the cages, so
that their labor costs are kept down. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 05) One of the hens in
this battery house escaped her cage and is standing in the aisle between the
tiers of cages. The problem is, she still cannot escape her endless suffering,
because she is still locked inside the building. Such inhumane treatment of
another living and feeling being is demonic. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 06) This photo gives
us a closer look at a single battery cage. Typically, four to five egg laying
hens are packed into wire battery cage which has a floor the size of a folded
newspaper. They cannot even stretch their wings. Stop this evil and cruel
treatment of chickens. Stop eating eggs! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 07) These battery
cages are so small that the hens can't even stand up without their heads
sticking out through the wire at the top of the cage. This is an example of how
human beings pile one evil act upon another. It's time it stops! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 08) Every year
millions of egg laying hens die in their battery cages. This dead hen was
removed from her cage and laid on top of it. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 09) This photo was
taken at an ISC factory farming operation where there are 800,000 laying hens
confined in small cages. The sheer magnitude of this concentration camp staggers
ones imagination. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 10) Some hens manage
to escape from their cages, only to fall into the manure pits below, where they
meet a slow death without food or water. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 11) In the manure
pits, Compassion Over Killing (COK) investigators found mass graves of dead
hens, presumably discarded by workers. The chickens that are alive have to live
in the stench and fumes of the rotting remains of their companions and their own
feces. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 12) COK investigators
reported that the battery cage buildings at ISC were infested with billions of
flies. Note how many have accumulated in the pail of bad eggs. Perhaps ISC hopes
that the chickens will supplement their diet with these flies, but we can't help
wondering what diseases may also be involved. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 13) Many hens get
their heads stuck beneath the feeding trough and die of dehydration. We believe
this happens because the hens are trying to rescue their newly laid eggs which
have rolled away. To us, this proves how emotionally distressing these "torture
chambers" are to the chickens, who on top of all of their other suffering, lose
their children over and over again day after day. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 14) This hen has her
leg caught between the bars of two cages. She is still alive, but will soon die
if not released. To the egg farmers, the life of a single chicken appears to be
of no value. Photos like these prove to us the evilness of factory farming, and
how ungodly these farmers really are. It's as we are told in Proverbs 12:10, "A
righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, But even the compassion of
the wicked is cruel." |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 15) Hens who get
caught underneath feeding troughs suffer from routine trampling from other birds
until they finally die from dehydration. It's as though these battery cages were
deliberately designed to cause the chickens as much pain and suffering as
possible while providing the maximum profit. "For the love of money is a root of
all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith
and pierced themselves with many griefs" (1 Timothy 6:10). |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 16) This hen was still
alive. She had woven her neck between the bars of her cage. COK investigators
freed her neck and gave her water. From the condition of the hen it is obvious
that no farm worker made any attempt to rescue her. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 17) We believe that
these cruel egg farmers have crammed 8 hens into this cage. Such crowding causes
enormous psychological and physical strain upon these chickens. Every person who
eats an egg contributes to this suffering. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 18) On the average,
each of the hens in these battery cages has only about 52 square inches of cage
"floor" area. That's an area of 7-1/4 inches by 7-1/4 inches. They spend most of
their lives there simply because some human beings have the power to force them
to do so, and most other people don't seem to care. It's time we start
caring! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 19) Every time we
publish another of these photos in this photo journal, it increases our resolve
to end the suffering that our fellow human beings inflict upon these innocent
beings. Join us, and stop eating animals and their by-products; and tell others
why you have stopped. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 20) These cages are so
crowded that all the hens don't have enough space to sit or lie down at the same
time. In order to find space to sit and lie down, this hen was forced to climb
on top of the other hens. Note the horrible condition of the top hen's feathers,
most of which have been lost. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 21) Overcrowded
conditions lead to feather loss which is caused by the struggle for space and by
constantly rubbing against the wire of the cages. To force chickens to live this
way is evil and ungodly. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 22) This hen has
suffered such severe feather loss that a large area of her skin is bare. This is
cruel and inhumane treatment; but the law says that because it's standard
practice in the industry, it doesn't break the law. That doesn't make it any
less evil. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 23) In addition to
suffering severe feather loss, this hen has been splattered with feces from hens
above her. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 24) Try to imagine the
stress that these hens must be under. Imagine yourself being trapped in a
passenger elevator with seven other people for two years, and you might come
close to understanding what some people are doing to these chickens. Don't
contribute to their pain and suffering. Stop eating eggs! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 25) This photo shows
more chickens suffering from severe feather loss because of the cruelty and
indifference of human beings. It's time we begin to care and speak
out! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 26) More feather loss
and more misery - the story of an egg laying battery hen's life. And, everyone
who eats eggs contributes to their suffering. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 27) This hen has lost
so many feathers that she is almost completely bald. Speak up! Its time to say
no to this pain and suffering. Stop eating eggs, and any
animals. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 28) This is a photo of
a hen with an eye infection. Since vet care costs more than allowing hens to
languish and die, these types of injuries are ignored by the egg industry. This
is just another example of the pain and suffering that is in every
egg. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 29) This is another
hen with an eye problem. She has a growth over her eye which has remained
untreated. This is one of the reasons that we believe that the animal
agriculture industry is evil. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 30) This hen is
suffering with a tumor or infection on the side of her head. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 31) The hen in the
foreground has an untreated infected cut on the back of her head, which was most
likely caused by the sharp end of one of the wires in the cage. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 32) Dead hens commonly
go unnoticed in battery cages, forcing the living to eat and sleep on top of the
corpses of their former cellmates. To us, this is just another example of how
evil the farmed animal industry really is. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 33) Compassion Over
Killing investigators found this dead chicken lying on top of a cage of living
hens. We find it difficult to understand why a farm worker, who had pulled this
dead chicken out of a cage, would leave her on top to rot. Our only answer is
that such people are totally devoid of any compassion. Surely, such a lack of
compassion can be defined as evil. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 34) Here is another
dead and decomposing hen that was found lying on top of this battery cage.
Represented here is just a small part of the misery that is in every egg that is
sold or eaten. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 35) Apparently, this
hen died of dehydration after she became stuck between the wire bars of her
cage. All we can presume is that no one cared. The time and effort needed to
release this hen must have been considered more costly than the life and value
of the chicken. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 36) This dead hen is
lying with her head in the food trough. It is hard for us to understand how this
could have gone unnoticed by the farm workers. Obviously they didn't care.
Rightly so does the Bible teach us that "the compassion of the wicked is
cruel." |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 37) Evidently, this
hen accidentally hanged herself when she got her head twisted around the wires
at the top of her battery cage. Eggs don't come to the table without death. Some
die sooner and some suffer on to die later. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 38) Apparently, this
hen was standing on top of another hen. When the lower hen moved, the one above
was left hanging by her neck. These cages are not designed to protect the hens.
They are designed as inexpensively as possible only to keep the hens
confined. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 39) This badly
decomposed hen was found in the bottom of a battery cage with living chickens
still in it. Concern for the life and well-being of farmed animals appears to be
nonexistent. Apparently, all these people value is their financial statement's
bottom line. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 40) This is a photo of
a caged egg-laying hen with a painful eye infection that has gone untreated at a
Buckeye factory farm in Ohio. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 41) This is what
happens when a painful eye infection goes untreated. "It is outrageous that the
operators neglect hens who are suffering so horribly from acute and chronic eye
infections and injuries to the eyes -- one of the most painful of all areas of
the body when afflicted. With eye injuries such as these, the failure to provide
appropriate treatment and veterinary care is the height of irresponsibility."
--Elliot M. Katz, DVM. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 42) This laying hen,
with a painful untreated eye infection, was removed from the cage. As long as
people want cheap eggs to eat, the cruelty will continue to exist. The answer?
Stop eating eggs! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 43) This is another
battery hen, with an untreated painful eye infection, at a Buckeye factory farm
in Ohio. "It is the love of money that leads to such evil" (1 Timothy 6:10), for
it is less expensive to allow this living soul to suffer until she dies than it
is to treat her infection, or even to euthanize her. And, every egg that is
purchased contributes to this evil. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 44) From what we have
learned, eye infection seems to be quite common among battery hens. We believe
that the major contributing factor is the ammonia gas coming from the manure
coupled with the crowded unsanitary conditions. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 45) This hen is
suffering from a serious sinus infection. Without proper veterinary care, this
condition will only get worse, and the chicken will continue to suffer until she
dies. To allow this to happen is evil, and it shows us how depraved some humans
can be. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 46) This hen is
suffering from an infection that has caused severe swelling on the side of her
face. She feels pain just as much as we do. As long as humans demand cheap eggs,
this suffering and depraved indifference to life will continue. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 47) This is another
hen with a severely swollen head which was caused by an untreated infection.
Stop the cruelty! Stop eating eggs! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 48) This hen's wing is
caught between the wires of a battery cage. She is unable to get to food or
water or to lie down. She is painfully suspended in an upright position. Imagine
having your hand and wrist tied to a shower curtain rod so that you can't sit
down or get to drinking water for more than a whole day, and you might have some
idea what this hen is suffering. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 49) This is another
hen who has been caught in the wires of a battery cage. In this condition, she
is unable to get to food or water. This problem is caused by humans who consider
cheap construction costs more important than the welfare of the chickens. The
Bible tells us that this is evil (1 Timothy 6:10); since, to such people, the
love of money far outweighs concern for the lives of chickens. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 50) This hen's foot is
swollen to several times its natural size. One of the evils of this egg industry
is that they don't spend any money on veterinary care for sick and injured hens.
Because money is their god, those in this industry consider it less expensive to
let the hens suffer and die than to treat their problems. Don't be part of this
ungodliness! Don't buy or eat eggs! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 51) Because the
battery hens never get a chance to scratch the ground, as God intended them to
do, their toe nails are not ground down. As a result they grow too large (see
photo). This condition makes it both difficult and painful to even stand
properly. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 52) This hen died with
her head stuck in the egg trough. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 53) Laying hens are
forced to stand every moment of every day on wire bottom cages which hurt their
feet. When a cage mate dies, the live chickens will stand on top of the dead one
to relieve the pain. From the condition of dead chicken, she has obviously been
left in the cage for a long time. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 54) This is the body
of another dead chicken that has been left to decompose in the bottom of a
battery cage. This is proof positive that eating eggs DOES contribute to chicken
suffering and death. |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 55) This is another
photo of hens standing on the decomposing body of a dead cage mate. There is no
compassion in the factory farming industry! |
 (Chicken - Egg Production - 56) ...and another
photos of a hen standing on the decomposing body of another her... After seeing
the reality of the cruelty involved in factory farming operations, people
frequently write to us and say that they are ashamed to be a member of the human
race. When we read statements like these, we think about how much worse God must
feel about the human race, since He lovingly created all the animals and charged
humans with compassionately caring for them. |
(Chicken - Baby - 01) At the hatchery, chicks
enter this world inside drawers of huge incubators They have no mother to take
care for them as God intended. Every time we see a scene like this one we think
of Jesus' words as He looked upon Jerusalem: "...how often I have longed to
gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but
you were not willing" (Matthew 23:37). And now, because of the hardness of heart
of human beings, the analogy of a hen gathering her chicks under her wings is no
longer applicable.
(Chicken - Baby - 02) The lives of male chicks
have no value to an egg farmer. In this photo, unwanted male chicks struggle to
survive amid egg shells and garbage in a dumpster behind a hatchery for laying
hens. They were just thrown out with the trash.
(Chicken - Baby - 03) These are more male chicks
that have been thrown away as garbage at a hatchery for laying hens. Some people
mistakenly think that there is no death involved in the egg business, but they
are sadly mistaken. To begin with, for every laying hen there is a dead male
chick. At some hatcheries, if the males are not thrown away, they are ground up
alive, mixed with grain and fed to the females.
(Chicken - Baby - 04) This photo, and the next
nine photos of dead baby male chickens are from Germany, where about 40,000,000
male chicks are thrown away in trash containers to suffocate to death every
year, simply because they have no commercial value in the egg
industry.
(Chicken - Baby - 05) These dead baby male chicks
never got to enjoy life as God intended. No wonder God said, "The intent of
man's heart is evil from his youth" (Genesis 8:21).
(Chicken - Baby - 06) This is a closer look at
some of the 40,000,000 male chicks that are killed by the egg industry in
Germany every year. This number is estimated to be about 4 times larger in the
United States.
(Chicken - Baby - 07) More murdered male
chicks...their lives are considered worthless by the egg industry, so they are
thrown away as trash.
(Chicken - Baby - 08) He and his brothers never
got to know life as God intended. Human greed cut their lives short.
(Chicken - Baby - 09) These dead male chicks
prove that there is nothing humane about egg farming.
(Chicken - Baby - 10) Just so much
trash...
(Chicken - Baby - 11) And more trash...
(Chicken - Baby - 12) Every person who eats eggs
contributes to the death of these baby male chickens and their
mothers.
(Chicken - Baby - 13) The only thing these dead
male chicks ever got to know about their mothers were the bits of shell that
came from her body. The egg industry is cruel. Be compassionate! Don't support
them with your money. Don't eat eggs!
(Chicken - Debeaked - 01) This is a baby female
chicken having the end of her beak cut off with the hot knife of the debeaking
machine. This is extremely painful! Every human who eats an egg is helping this
hand torture and mutilate another baby chicken.
(Chicken - Debeaked - 02) This is a close-up
view of a young hen who has had about half of her beak removed. Such excessive
debeaking can cause life-long pain. Stop the torture! Stop eating
eggs!
(Chicken - Debeaked - 03) This is a close-up
look at a battery hen who has been debeaked. When chickens are so crowded
together, they irritate one another, just as we would under similar living
conditions. Chickens respond to such irritation by pecking the other bird. In
natural living conditions, the offending bird would just move away; but in
cages, they can't, so these "farmers" cut off the end of their beaks to minimize
the injuries. People create one evil and then create another evil to try to
correct the first evil. How depraved!
(Chicken - Debeaked - 04) This is another photo
of a hen who has been mutilated by having the end of her beak cut off with a hot
knife, without any anesthesia. Sometimes in the process, the end of the
chicken's tongue is also cut off. It's time people realize the pain and
suffering that goes into each egg.
(Chicken - Forced Molting - 01) As laying hens
age, they begin to lay fewer eggs. So, in order to increase their profits, the
egg industry starves the hens for up to two weeks, causing the hens to molt. The
forced molting puts the hens in a survival mode, so that when they are fed
again, they begin to lay more eggs. Financial gain does not justify such evil
practices.
(Chicken - Forced Molting - 02) This hen was
rescued after living for months in a dark shed with thousands of other hens, all
stuffed into cages with three-six other hens. Being starved of food or water,
she was forced molted several times before being rescued. Here she enjoys the
first moments of peace she may have ever experienced.
(Chicken - Forced Molting - 03) Hens might be
force-moulted one more time, or even twice, in order to get as many eggs from
your tired body as possible. And then, when—like the dairy cow—you can’t produce
enough of your reproductive secretions, you become cheap meat—dog food, soup, or
baby food. You will be less than two years old, about a tenth of your potential
lifespan.
(Chicken - Broiler - 01) The name "broiler" is
a term that the farmed chicken industry uses for chickens who are raised for
meat. In these concentration camps, these chickens are crowded together by the
thousands in "grower houses" where each chicken is given approximately half a
square foot of space.
(Chicken - Broiler - 02) This is another view
of chickens who are raised for meat being crowded by the thousands in "grower
houses." Approximately nine billion chickens like these are slaughtered every
year in the U.S. They are being deprived of their God-given liberty for their
entire lives. This is evil! The Bible teaches us that we are to "rule" over the
animals in the same way we expect our elected government officials to "rule"
over us.
(Chicken - Broiler - 03) This is another photo
of the horribly crowded conditions that exist on factory farms. These chickens
never get a chance to go outside and feel the grass under their feet. The only
time they leave is when they are being transported to their death.
(Chicken - Broiler - 04) Selective breeding
and genetic manipulation create legs and organs that are unable to support the
unnatural growth. Perosis, twisted leg, and heart attacks are common. To produce
the huge "chicken breast" that brings profit, this bird cannot even stand up.
This bird is about seven weeks old and will be sent to slaughter in a matter of
days.
(Chicken - Transport - 01) Chickens aren't
offered any compassion. We have seen videos taken in their crowded "houses"
showing chickens being grabbed by the feet by "handlers" and held upside down,
several in each hand, and thrust into shipping crates like these chickens who
have been loaded onto a truck for transport to a slaughterhouse.
(Chicken - Transport - 02) This is a closer look
at the chickens in their crowded shipping crates as they are being transported
to the slaughterhouse. Every time a person eats a part of a chicken's body, he
or she contributes to the suffering of these birds.
(Chicken - Transport - 03) At the
slaughterhouse, the crates are unloaded by a small crane. We have seen concrete
blocks and gypsum wallboard being unloaded like this on a construction site.
These chickens aren't inanimate objects; they have emotions and feelings just as
we have. Only humans are capable of such
insensitivity.
(Chicken - Slaughter - 01) Every hour at the
slaughterhouse, thousands of chickens are hung upside down in shackles on a
conveyer and killed. We can only imagine the terror that they feel.
(Chicken - Slaughter - 02) This is another
photo of chickens in a slaughterhouse. When we became aware of the pain and
suffering that our fellow human beings inflict upon other living beings, we
adopted a vegan diet as a protest against this holocaust and no longer eat any
animals or their by-products.
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