The chicken egg and meat farming industry
Eggs:
Chickens are forced to live in battery cages in windowless sheds, and do not see the outdoors in their entire lifetime. At about 18 months, hens stop producing as many eggs. These hens are then seen as useless and transported and killed. They will be replaced by younger hens who in around 14 months will soon face the same horrible fate. Another horrible thing about the industry is that chicken feed is often mixed with chicken meat, and these chickens end up eating their own family members. In hatcheries male chicks are seen as unprofitable, and often the same day that they are born are either gassed and suffocated alive or ground up into mince at high speed alive.
Meat:
Chickens in the meat industry are also made to live out in cages and are fed supplements such steroids that force them to grow at 4 times their natural rate. This means that their legs often cannot support their weight and collapse, and they cannot reach food or water, and die. Another horrifying fact is that chickens are often fed arsenic, which is a type of poison to make their flesh pinker and look more appetizing. After 5-7 weeks, the few survivors are trucked to the slaughterhouse to face a horrifying end. At the slaughterhouse, the chickens are bound by their legs, hung upside down and electrically stunned. They then pass through a motorized blade, that cuts their throats, before being blasted with boiling hot water to remove their feathers. Sometimes the chickens may not get properly stunned, and pass through the motorized blade, which because they are conscious can wriggle and avoid getting their throats properly cut, which then means they would be blasted with scalding water, have their throats cut, and have been electrically stunned all while being fully conscious.
Chickens are forced to live in battery cages in windowless sheds, and do not see the outdoors in their entire lifetime. At about 18 months, hens stop producing as many eggs. These hens are then seen as useless and transported and killed. They will be replaced by younger hens who in around 14 months will soon face the same horrible fate. Another horrible thing about the industry is that chicken feed is often mixed with chicken meat, and these chickens end up eating their own family members. In hatcheries male chicks are seen as unprofitable, and often the same day that they are born are either gassed and suffocated alive or ground up into mince at high speed alive.
Meat:
Chickens in the meat industry are also made to live out in cages and are fed supplements such steroids that force them to grow at 4 times their natural rate. This means that their legs often cannot support their weight and collapse, and they cannot reach food or water, and die. Another horrifying fact is that chickens are often fed arsenic, which is a type of poison to make their flesh pinker and look more appetizing. After 5-7 weeks, the few survivors are trucked to the slaughterhouse to face a horrifying end. At the slaughterhouse, the chickens are bound by their legs, hung upside down and electrically stunned. They then pass through a motorized blade, that cuts their throats, before being blasted with boiling hot water to remove their feathers. Sometimes the chickens may not get properly stunned, and pass through the motorized blade, which because they are conscious can wriggle and avoid getting their throats properly cut, which then means they would be blasted with scalding water, have their throats cut, and have been electrically stunned all while being fully conscious.