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“If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. Small changes in buying habits can make big differences. Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.” Steven L. Hopp, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver
The living conditions in Commercial egg factories are as such: Up to nine birds are often crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven where they are not able to lie down. Blazing lights stimulate their ovaries day and night so that they lay almost double the eggs a normal, happy hen should lay. They breathe the stench of ammonia - never knowing the sweet smell of fresh air. They feel chronic pain from debeaking, the routine removal of a chick's beak to stop them taking out their distress on each other. A normal, happy hen lives up to four years, while the commercial hen is made into pet food after just 15 months.
"When I learned that the hen had tear glands, I assumed she could cry" Gina Mallet, Last Chance to Eat.
