http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-raj-persaud/horse-meat-scandal-eating-meat_b_2720783.html

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The Horse Meat Scandals Reveal We Are More Psychologically Screwed Up Than We Realised About Eating Animals

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Life – or lack of – in a battery cage

For years and years, the egg industry has been able to mislead the public, using images of happy chickens running around and eating worms and healthy grains in outdoor settings. This popular image is conveniently used to sell more and more eggs, making the consumers believe that egg-laying hens lead a happy, content life for which they ‘thank us’ by providing eggs. Yet, the egg industry might not be able to keep much longer from the general public the real way in which hens are treated.

While many undercover photos and videos have already started to reveal the gruesome reality of the egg industry, helping the public become aware that their eggs instead come from hens crowded in tiny cages, the group “Anonymous for Animal Rights” is leading the way towards an even greater awareness of the suffering of egg laying eggs. By installing a hidden camera inside a battery cage in a chicken shed, we are provided with the live broadcast, 24 hours a day, of the life – or should we say total lack of – of three egg laying hens locked in a cage 40 cm long, 33 cm wide and 45 cm high. Unable to stretch their wings, dust bathe or peck at the ground, forced to lives of daylight deprivation and toxic fumes, these sentient beings, enslaved by the egg industry, have nothing to do.

More than anything before, this live video allows us to watch the hens’ miserable life of stress, pain and boredom, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day.

We can choose to close our eyes on this terrible injustice and horrific cruelty, because it is convenient and because eggs taste good. Or we can refuse to support a system that treat other sentient beings in a way we would never want to be treated ourselves. Options for cooking without eggs abound. Please don’t be a part of this suffering and choose a vegan diet.