• Chicken farms Chicken farms As a cage-free egg producer, Jack Wintersteen represents a very small portion of today’s industrialized egg industry (“Man scrambling to purchase egg farm,” August 22). While Mr. Wintersteen’s birds are able to walk about, approximately
• Chicken farms
Chicken farms
As a cage-free egg producer, Jack Wintersteen represents a very small portion of today’s industrialized egg industry (“Man scrambling to purchase egg farm,” August 22).
While Mr. Wintersteen’s birds are able to walk about, approximately 300 million laying hens in our country will spend their entire lives confined in cages so small, each hen will have less floor space than the area of a sheet of paper. These animals never flap their wings, never touch earth, and never engage in many other natural behaviors, such as nesting, perching and dust bathing. In short, their lives are filled with suffering.
The time is long overdue to afford these birds basic protections from the most egregious intensive confinement practices. By phasing out the use of cages for laying hens, we can begin to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of animals.
- Paul Shapiro
Factory Farming Campaign
The Humane Society of the United States
Washington, D.C.
