World egg 'free' day! Live without egg for just 1 day

pinkraynedropjacki

The egg industry has declared today ‘World Egg Day’– but we’d like to take this opportunity to put chickens BEFORE the egg by sharing with you something that the egg marketing machine won’t... In an industry where the worth of a hen is measured by how many eggs she can produce – have you ever stopped to wonder what happened to the boys?

The truth might shock you. For every female chicken hatched, there is one male; a tiny chirping bundle of fluff who will never produce an egg. He will never grow fast enough to be profitable for his meat. So he is simply disposed of – like a piece of rubbish.
Every year in Australia, 12 million day-old male chicks are gassed to death, or ground up alive. Tragically this is standard practice across all types of egg farming systems – whether free range, organic or factory farmed.

Today, we’re looking out for the little guys by inviting you to celebrate World Egg ‘Free’ day with us.

Slrajr

:flowerforyou:

SmileCozYouCan

I'm so silly I actually started crying, lol.

troy0

Do you have a reference or source for the information about the 12 mil per day male chicks gassed to death ?. Its very interesting and somewhat difficult to believe.

I can offer my heartfelt assistance to this plight by waiting for those 12 million little fellas to grow up at their natural rate in my backyard, then eat them.

Cute little furry bundles of protein.. mmmm

missmelt

I have my own freerange happy little chooks i feel sad for all the caged ones. Mine fly into trees, scratch up bugs and sand dust in the sun.

pinkraynedropjacki

I'm so silly I actually started crying, lol.

Yeah I always find stuff like this hard to read out aloud to my son & hubby :sad: even sad dog & cat stories :sad:

laurynwithawhy

pinkraynedropjacki

Do you have a reference or source for the information about the 12 mil per day male chicks gassed to death ?. Its very interesting and somewhat difficult to believe.

I can offer my heartfelt assistance to this plight by waiting for those 12 million little fellas to grow up at their natural rate in my backyard, then eat them.

Cute little furry bundles of protein.. mmmm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326168/Secret-footage-shows-millions-British-chicks-killed-year.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling

just do a google for day old chicks gassed & you will find something from all parts of the world

Rayman79

Not having an egg free day, but every time I buy eggs they are only free range.

If I can work at a chicken 'processing' facility and still eat poultry products afterwards... not much is going to put me off!

smokeyg01

I eat like 6 eggs a day

l0l0p

Thanks for sharing!:bigsmile: :flowerforyou:

Mutant13

I think it's great that your trying to raise awareness and stop issues with the industry but can I politely suggest some more reputable sources?
Daily mail and Wikipedia will make an argument look bad.

pinkraynedropjacki

I think it's great that your trying to raise awareness and stop issues with the industry but can I politely suggest some more reputable sources?
Daily mail and Wikipedia will make an argument look bad.

I could grab it from anywhere, RSPCA here in Australia, UK, USA..... anywhere in the world. Last time I did something like this I was hounded out for being wrong. I was not wrong then & not now.

Pity that so many just think of the food & not why or how it's wrong to support.

Mutant13

Imnot implying your wrong, just suggesting that you link better sources. Sources with no credibility only weaken an argument

mayaocean

BRB making a 12 egg omelette.














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wait for it....













yolks included.

Come at me cholesterol nazis.

Slrajr

Do you have a reference or source for the information about the 12 mil per day male chicks gassed to death ?. Its very interesting and somewhat difficult to believe.

I can offer my heartfelt assistance to this plight by waiting for those 12 million little fellas to grow up at their natural rate in my backyard, then eat them.

Cute little furry bundles of protein.. mmmm

If we did eat them I would feel much better about eating eggs, hell I might even start eating meat once in a while!

Slrajr

BRB making a 12 egg omelette.














......
















wait for it....













yolks included.

Come at me cholesterol nazis.

At least you didn't discard the yolks along with all the poor baby boy chicks:flowerforyou:

Slrajr

:flowerforyou:

I have my own freerange happy little chooks i feel sad for all the caged ones. Mine fly into trees, scratch up bugs and sand dust in the sun.

I love this:)

_noob_

Female mantises usually chop off the male's head before he copulates...oh the humanity...

runs4zen

BRB making a 12 egg omelette.
wait for it....
yolks included.
Come at me cholesterol nazis.

Hey, eat up sistah! I'm making a 24 egg omelette because I dump out all the yolks. If we made omelettes together, you could have the yolks, I'll take the whites and we'd only use 12 eggs between us instead of 36. Then we could make 3 omelettes instead of 2. My math is solid.

Alluminati

No. I'm cold as ice.