World Egg Day
via Activist.co.za and UrbanSprout.co.za:
Battery eggs are produced by hens who live in cramped, caged conditions with a space allowance each of 75% of an A4 sheet of paper. Their beaks are always seared off and they do not have access to sunlight or the ability to exercise any of their basic behavioural needs such as laying an egg in a nest, dust-bathing, sun-bathing, foraging and scratching for food. After a year, the rate at which they lay eggs drops from one egg every 25 hours to one every 34 hours. They are no longer considered “economically viable” and are sent to cull farms where hawkers buy them for slaughter in informal settlements. Please join me in this petition which aims at ending the cruel and unnecessary practice of battery farming in South Africa.
To ALL supermarkets – asking them to STOP battery eggs.
And once again, a seemingly ethical company like Woolworths needs to be coerced into going all the way:
For Woolworths customers – to Woolworths Top Management – asking them to live up to their signs, and stop using battery eggs in their food.
