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LIVE FREE OR DIE

Well, I started a new craze.

Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs

I have been cage free (or my eggs have been) for many years.

I am not actually sure that it is better to have chickens running around beating on each other and squawking but at least it is natural.

I also don't like the de-beaking thing.

I used to have a client who sold drugs to the chicken people. I learned a lot about commercial practices.

I know a chicken isn't too high up the evolutionary scale toward sentience and all but I couldn't hack the conditions I saw.

In fact, most of the drugs that were sold to the breeders were to accommodate the battery accommodations!

Talk about your vicious circles. With a chicken in the middle.

Somewhere some people have said that cage free eggs are better.

I don't know.

But I am happy to pay extra to have the chicken at least modestly happier and living more in a flock.

Of course, if I was really serious about it I would stop eating eggs entirely.

But if I did, who would support the cage-free hens?

Labels: agriculture