30-40,000,000 reasons per year to stop eating eggs

 Look at this cute little chick- adorable, isn't he? You can't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him, can you? Of course not. But anyone who eats eggs is contributing to the horrible deaths of millions of these little ones.

  Male chicks are unwanted by the egg industry as, of course, they will never lay eggs. They are not the same breed as those used for meat production, so they are considered worthless. Because they are not going to be eaten by humans, there is very little concern about how they are killed. Between 30-40 million of them are killed every year in Britain, by either being thrown alive into electric mincers, being ground up alive, or by being gassed in their thousands. I am not going to go into details here, but these deaths, as you might imagine, involve a great deal of suffering and are not particularly quick.  This is a needless destruction of life to an unimaginable scale – and all to bring eggs to our tables. It happens in all egg production: from batteries through to organic farming. The ONLY way to prevent this is to go vegan. 

  Since egg producers will always require that some eggs are hatched to replace their 'spent' hens ('spent'  when their egg production drops, at two or three years old,when their natural lifespan should be easily eight or nine years) , and half the eggs hatched will always be male, there will always be this appalling slaughter as the hidden side of egg production. If you buy eggs then you are paying companies to grind up male chicks.

  If you really want this to stop happening, please go vegan. We run a vegan shop and we can help. We have lots of lovely vegan products including egg replacers and if you need any advice, please ask. We make great 'Vegan Fried Eggs' and  'Vegan Egg Salad' sandwiches at home, flavouring with black salt, which we sell in our shop and we also sell linseed and specialist egg replacer for use in baking, pancakes, waffles etc. Please visit us at VegaNation www.veganation.co.uk - the hens will thank you! x

By the way, the chick in the picture (sorry, blurry pic from a video) is safe at Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary (www.harvesthomeanimal.org) in the U.S.A..