Both "free-range" and battery cage hens are debeaked without anesthetic and force molted through starvation. They are considered spent after only 18 months of laying eggs and killed in the cheapest way possible. All male chicks are brutally killed at one day old because they cannot lay eggs. While "free-range" hens are not confined to cages, they come from the same hatcheries and endure the same treatment and mutilations as battery cage hens. They are also killed when their egg production declines to remain profitable, as keeping unproductive roosters and spent hens would cut into farm profits. The only humane alternative is to go vegan.

1. “Free-Range” Hen Battery Caged Hen
“Free-Range” Eggs Vs. Battery Cage Eggs
“Free-Range” Hens are: Battery Cage Hens are:
• Debeaked with hot bloody blade at • Debeaked with hot bloody blade at
one day old, with no anesthetic. one day old, with no anesthetic.
• Force molted (intentionally starved to • Force molted (intentionally starved to
shock the body into another laying cycle). shock the body into another laying cycle).
• At only 18 months old, just young girls, • At only 18 months old, just young girls,
the hens are considered spent (unable to the hens are considered spent (unable to
keep laying eggs at a fast enough pace) keep laying eggs at a fast enough pace)
and are killed by the cheapest means and are killed by the cheapest means
possible. possible.
• 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.
"Cage-Free"/"Free-Range" hens come from the same hatcheries as battery caged hens where all of their male brothers are killed
by suffocation or maceration (being ground up alive). The hens themselves endure the same bodily manipulations and
mutilations as battery caged hens, and they all ultimately end up at the same slaughterhouses when their egg production
declines. No matter where the egg production facility is, or how idyllic its “visible to the public” face is, its egg-laying hens are
obtained from the same hatcheries that kill all of the baby roosters at only one day old. If the "free-range" farm hatches its own
chicks, then, in order to make a profit, it still has to kill all of its baby roosters, and all of its “spent” hens. If all of the roosters
and “spent” hens were allowed to live out their lives (chickens can live well over a decade), then that farm would soon have
thousands of roosters and "spent" hens to care for. The lifelong care of all of those “unproductive” birds, would cut severely
into any profits made by selling the eggs of younger hens.
In order to make a profit, the numbers simply don't add up
unless the inevitable killing of roosters and “spent” hens is occurring.
“Free-Range” Eggs Are NOT a Humane Alternative
There Is Only One Humane Alternative
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