The sentient creatures who are the unwilling part of this industrial "food" system pay for that “cheapness” with brutal, short existences.
Photo by Unparalleled Photography, Aug. 24, 2022
Re:
“$7 a dozen? Why California eggs are so expensive — and
increasingly hard to find,” January 7,
2023
To the editor:
This longtime animal advocate stopped purchasing eggs
when I discovered how much factory-farmed chickens suffered. Now I
enjoy a healthy plant-based diet.
I am also aware that there is no such thing as “cheap” in any field,
and this is especially true in animal agriculture. The sentient
creatures who are the unwilling part of this industrial system pay
for that “cheapness” with brutal, short existences.
So, to learn that many consumers are now grumbling about high prices
for eggs does not worry me. If customers knew of the inhumane
practices to which chickens are subject, would they still hunger for
eggs and meat?
I would hope that many would reject this cruelty and say that $7 is
far too small a price to pay for it.
Elaine Livesey-Fassel, Los Angeles
Member of United Poultry Concerns
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To the editor:
It is heartening that many states are passing legislation to provide
at least a modicum of “welfare” laws on behalf of farmed animals.
As for egg shortages, please. Birds and pigs since a year ago or
more have been tortured to death slowly in the procedure of mass
extermination known as “ventilation shutdown-plus.”
In this process, they are deprived of air to breathe and subjected
to extreme heat designed to induce heatstroke. Anyone with a
conscience who has watched chickens and pigs dying under this
merciless procedure can only be sickened by the bottomless cruelty
of agribusiness and the helpless agony of our innocent victims [see
Ads Urge AVMA to Condemn Ventilation Shutdown-Plus].
As long as chickens are forced to live in squalor, avian influenza
will recycle. This is “egg-xactly” a fact.
Karen Davis, Machipongo VA
President of United Poultry Concerns