Peaceful Prairie leaflet on why free range eggs don't cut it.

1. Debeaking Operation Baby Rooster Disposal “Free Range” Hen Battery Caged Hen
If the "free-range" farm hatches its own
chicks, two important questions still
Obviously, the lifelong care of all of those
birds, at all stages of a natural life span,
Can You Tell the Difference?
remain: would cut severely into any profits made
by selling the eggs of younger hens. “Free-Range” Hens are: Battery-Caged Hens are:
1. What happens to ALL of the male • Debeaked with hot bloody blade at • Debeaked with hot bloody blade at
chicks – not just few token roosters – So what happens to ALL of the boys? And one day old, with no anesthetic. one day old, with no anesthetic.
ALL of them? what happens to ALL of the spent hens?
The answer is always the same: they are
• Force molted (intentionally starved to • Force molted (intentionally starved to
2. What happens to the hens when they killed by the cheapest means possible.
are no longer laying enough eggs for shock the body into another laying cycle). shock the body into another laying cycle).
this facility to be profitable?
“Free Range” vs. Battery Eggs? • At only 18 months old, just young girls, • At only 18 months old, just young girls,
If the spent hens and ALL of the roosters Good news! the hens are considered spent (unable to the hens are considered spent (unable to
were allowed to live out their lives until It’s not an either/or: keep laying eggs at a fast enough pace) keep laying eggs at a fast enough pace)
they died a natural death – chickens can It’s Neither! and are killed by the cheapest means and are killed by the cheapest means
live well over a decade – then that farm
possible. possible.
would soon have thousands of "spent" www.GoVeganNow.com
hens and roosters to care for.
• All of her brothers (roosters) are • All of her brothers (roosters) are
brutally killed as a baby chicks simply brutally killed as a baby chicks simply
because they can’t lay eggs. because they can’t lay eggs.

2. Some animal rights organizations have same slaughterhouses when their misinformed into believing that animal
made tremendous strides in educating “production” declines. We are often asked, agriculture of any kind is humane.
the public about what exactly occurs in “Don’t you think it is still better that
battery hen operations. They have people buy Cage Free eggs rather than Secondly, the so called “cage free” or
exposed the ugly truth such as tens of the others if they are going to buy eggs “free range” eggs are produced with an
thousands of hens crowded into long anyway?” It is as though the person exorbitant profit margin in comparison
poorly ventilated completely dark sheds, actually wants to believe that their to battery produced eggs. Therefore well
fully automated feeding and egg collecting consumer dollar is not paying for meaning consumers will be unwittingly
systems, filth, death and suffering. someone else to commit animal abuse padding the already thick pockets of egg
when in fact it is - no matter what producers, hatcheries, and poultry
“Free Range” Hen The recognition of how horrible the short production means were used. It is like slaughterhouses, which will only allow
lives of battery hens are has led many asking if strangulation is better than them to increase the size of their
people to stop contributing to the atrocity suffocation - the answer is: Neither is an operations and advertising budgets which,
by simply not buying those eggs. acceptable option. in turn, will lead to even more suffering.
Unfortunately, many other people have There is simply NO humane way to Why There Is NO Humane Way to
looked to so called “Cage Free/Free produce eggs for human consumption. Produce Eggs for Human
Range” eggs as an acceptable and humane Consumption – In A Nutshell:
alternative. Sadly the public is led to First, we would not want anyone to buy No matter where the egg production
believe that “Cage Free” hens live a happy “Cage free” eggs if they are doing so facility is, or what the “visible to the
natural life. This is simply not so! because they have compassion for the public” conditions are, the “free-range”
animals and convince themselves that egg-laying hens and the battery caged
Cage Free/Free Range hens come from they have made a humane choice. hens are obtained from the same
the same hatcheries that battery hens One of the most destructive things we hatcheries that kill the baby rooster chicks
come from, all of their male brothers are can do for the animals is to lie to ourselves at only one day old, and debeak the newly
killed by suffocation or being ground up or allow ourselves to be fooled and hatched baby hens with no anesthetic.
alive, the girls themselves endure the same
bodily manipulations and mutilations,
and they all ultimately end up at the Printed on recycled paper with veg inks and distributed by Animal Rights Advocates Inc.