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Eggs
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We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything i
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― The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
― The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
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More laying hens are slaughtered in the United States than cattle or pigs. Commercial laying hens are not bred for their flesh, but when their economic utility is over the still-young birds are trucked to the slaughterhouse and turned into meat products. In the process they are treated even more brutally than meat-type chickens because of their low market value. Their bones are very fragile from lack of exercise and from calcium depletion for heavy egg production, causing fragments to stick to t
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― Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
― Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
a house sparrow just built a nest on my window sill, and i thought it would be neat to share it …more
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We endervour to find the history of the egg.
What came first: Bradford or the egg?
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