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BACKYARD CHICKENS

Are Cage-Free or Backyard Eggs Really Ethical?

Discover why every egg—organic, free-range, or backyard—causes suffering, and what you can do instead.

EGG INDUSTRY

Why Billions of Male Chicks Are Killed Every Year

Behind closed doors, millions of male chicks are destroyed each year because they can't lay eggs. Few know this hidden cruelty, but it’s the norm across egg farms worldwide.

RECIPES & RESOURCES

Should ethical vegetarians eat eggs?

While eggs may seem less harmful than meat, the truth is that they are a key product of an industry that views chickens as commodities, not living beings.

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Juliane Priesemeister 8/23/21 Juliane Priesemeister 8/23/21

Robin - Rescued From The Dead

This post documents the rescue from a plastic trash bag of a “dead” chicken – a baby rooster – who was slaughtered during the ritual of Kaporos in Brooklyn, New York last fall along with thousands of other chickens.

Juliane Priesemeister 4/16/21 Juliane Priesemeister 4/16/21

Anonymous Memoir of a Battery Caged Chicken

My eyes are shut. I strain to open them a little but the burning sensation forces them closed again. Perhaps it is better they are shut. When I open them I see things I don’t want to.

Nigel Osborne 6/4/20 Nigel Osborne 6/4/20

Dr. Crow's Bird Show

We all know the eggspression: What came first, the Chicken or the Egg?

Nigel Osborne 1/6/20 Nigel Osborne 1/6/20

Gerri's Story

“Saving Gerri was, hands down, the most humbling and inspiring thing I’ve ever done in my life”. - Georgia Rae Laidlaw Brown

Nigel Osborne 5/14/19 Nigel Osborne 5/14/19

The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

We have decided to publish, in it’s entirety, The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (“CDC'“). What is this declaration and what does it mean?

Nigel Osborne 5/10/19 Nigel Osborne 5/10/19

Sarah's Story

It's perhaps surprising that many people don't consider this question very often - perhaps because the suffering that exists in the egg industry is so hidden from us . . .

Nigel Osborne 1/1/19 Nigel Osborne 1/1/19

Learning How to Speak Bird

Did you know that in this very moment, there are tens of billions of birds held in captivity?

Nigel Osborne 8/20/18 Nigel Osborne 8/20/18

British Columbia Hens Rescued

Earlier this year we conducted an interview with Jeff Regear, an animal rights activist, who along with several colleagues documented unspeakable cruelty on several egg farms in British Columbia, Canada.

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