Crates and battery cages are a way of big business if you want to succeed in it. I do not find anything undesireable about those methods. Ever eat a yard chicken............tough as nails and only good for meat pies............Less room to move around less exercise less mucle build. Yard chickens lay eggs all over the place.........Gathering eggs takes time, plus they get dirtier in the process. Batteries solve that. Sows would generally crush or kill their piglets if not in a Farowing crate or stall. In the states hogs are not generally kept in individual stalls while getting fattened up to slaughter, and only kept inthe stalls during farowing time.
A chicken does not need a lot of room and if they have fresh water, clean conditions and ample food,m then so be it. Just look at the price of eggs in a market where they sell so called organic or non caged eggs...........as compared to eggs from caged chickens. A dozen Grade A Extra Large eggs from caged chickens is less than $1.30 a doz, and most times for 99 cents a dozen, yet the non caged eggs go for $4.95+ a dozen.........just like milk from contented cows that are "hand" milked by Wisconsin Millk Maids with silky soft hands is $9.00 a gal but I can get milk obtained forma milking machine run by Old Joe with weathered leathery hands for $2.50 a gal..............Caging is not wrong, if needs are met.
To me any group no matter who they are that puts a human life in danger over the sake of their ideals or the life of an animal is a radical.And I am sure I am not the only one that feels that way. No its not venom either. I just do not suppoort or condone their movements or actions or beliefs one bit, due totheir overall attitudes in general.
Caged chickens and farowing stalls are not going tog o away. No one is genetically changing these animals by confining them. To go totally organic and free range is cost as well as space and labor prohibitive, and to bge honest I do not think any nation could afford the prices it would entail..just to buy eggs of bacon and ham etc.
The onlypractice I do not agree with is the creation of a veal calf. Where a otherwise healthy beef calf is turned into an anemic calf with no muscle tone or mass, justy anemic white meat that canbe cut with a fork, that never see the antural sunlight or most any light other than the dim glow of minimal lighting, and who never shit a solid turd in their young life. Thats wrong. Its not in the same catagory however IMHO as a farrowing crate or hen battery. BTW most broiler chickens re raised on a floor of a chicken house..not batterys, and lots of egg layers are also housed in open floor houses as well, but with as many chickens as there are kept in those houses its not much different than being confined in a battery......Chicken houses here (layer and broiler types generally hold 20-25K birds each, with some of the larger ones holding close to double that amount.
A chicken does not need a lot of room and if they have fresh water, clean conditions and ample food,m then so be it. Just look at the price of eggs in a market where they sell so called organic or non caged eggs...........as compared to eggs from caged chickens. A dozen Grade A Extra Large eggs from caged chickens is less than $1.30 a doz, and most times for 99 cents a dozen, yet the non caged eggs go for $4.95+ a dozen.........just like milk from contented cows that are "hand" milked by Wisconsin Millk Maids with silky soft hands is $9.00 a gal but I can get milk obtained forma milking machine run by Old Joe with weathered leathery hands for $2.50 a gal..............Caging is not wrong, if needs are met.
To me any group no matter who they are that puts a human life in danger over the sake of their ideals or the life of an animal is a radical.And I am sure I am not the only one that feels that way. No its not venom either. I just do not suppoort or condone their movements or actions or beliefs one bit, due totheir overall attitudes in general.
Caged chickens and farowing stalls are not going tog o away. No one is genetically changing these animals by confining them. To go totally organic and free range is cost as well as space and labor prohibitive, and to bge honest I do not think any nation could afford the prices it would entail..just to buy eggs of bacon and ham etc.
The onlypractice I do not agree with is the creation of a veal calf. Where a otherwise healthy beef calf is turned into an anemic calf with no muscle tone or mass, justy anemic white meat that canbe cut with a fork, that never see the antural sunlight or most any light other than the dim glow of minimal lighting, and who never shit a solid turd in their young life. Thats wrong. Its not in the same catagory however IMHO as a farrowing crate or hen battery. BTW most broiler chickens re raised on a floor of a chicken house..not batterys, and lots of egg layers are also housed in open floor houses as well, but with as many chickens as there are kept in those houses its not much different than being confined in a battery......Chicken houses here (layer and broiler types generally hold 20-25K birds each, with some of the larger ones holding close to double that amount.
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