Bird Crate Cage

Bird Crate Cage

I Am A Factory Raised Laying Hen And This Is My Life (Part Two)

I am a factory raised laying hen with a story no different than multiplied  billions of other egg laying hens who have also been caught in an inescapable web of cruelty.  We cannot run, and we cannot hide.  We will experience the most heinous treatment imaginable every hour of our existence until our lives are cut short at the slaughterhouse.  This is my story...  This is our story.

The Next Prison 

I am now five months old and have never been out of this crowded cage in the entirety of my tortured life.  My feet are almost formed to the metal bars and I am in constant pain.  I have never spread my wings nor walked nor done anything that is natural.  It is evening and another brutal hand has entered my ten square inch space and is roughly grabbing me and extricating me from the only cage I have ever known and is flinging me into an even smaller cage.  Another bone breaks.  The pain is unbearable.  How can this be?  Nothing on earth could prepare one for such an evil existence.

My new prison is horrifying.  My cage is somewhere among the multitude of rows and stacks that seem to go on forever.  I am being pecked by another debeaked hen who is going mad from the stress.  Again my feet can find nowhere to stand and they are once again painfully forming around the metal mesh.  I have about 6 square inches in which to move.  How I long to extend my wings and how unnatural that I cannot.  I would give my soul(yes I have a soul) to be able to walk a mere couple of feet but alas it is impossible.  I cannot move. 

One of my cagemates has died and is rotting (she has been dead for weeks) and I stand on her to give me a bit of footing and to ease the terrible pain caused by my feet  being formed around the wire.  Our cage is slanted so that the eggs that are forced from my body at an exaggerated rate can roll away onto a conveyor and then it will be boxed for your breakfast.  The eggs that I have laid for the last two weeks leave my body and fall on the dead rotting bird that I have been using to stand on, and then they roll off to the conveyor belt.  This same process is happening in thousands of cages at this very minute.  Standing in a slanted cage with my feet desperately clinging to the metal is excruciating (that is why standing on a dead, rotting carcass is a luxury) and I am crowded by at least six other birds in an enclosure that is not big enough for a pet hamster.  I have never known a moment since my hatching that was not filled with terror, and excruciating pain. I cling to life like any sentient being but this tortured existence cannot in any way be classified as life. 

So many of my cagemates and millions of other birds amongst the rows and stacks have gotten stuck in the bars of the cage where they can no longer get to food and water, and they die there or are left living, clinging to life.  One of my cagemates is now in this predicament.  Soon another brutal hand (that is the only hand she has ever known) opens the cage door and tears her off the bars of the cage.  She is nearly split in half.  She is then dumped into a bucket where other half dying hens have been tossed.  Now a heavy boot comes down on the bucket mashing the birds to make room for others.  Maybe this fate is more merciful.  Maybe my half dead cagemate was the lucky one for being suffocated in the bucket.  How can this be?  Will somebody please rescue me!

My body is now spent after laying fifteen times the eggs that I am naturally able to produce.  I have existed in a space less than one square foot throughout my two year long tortured existence.  I am deemed useless, and so the cage door opens again and another horrible hand has grabbed me by my feet, along with several other hens, and we are being carried upside down.  After being escorted about twenty feet we are thrown into a shipping crate as though we were dirty laundry.  Why is this happening to us?  We are intelligent, curious sentient beings.  We feel pain and terror like any other of God's creatures, and we instinctively know that this will be our last ride. 
 
The Transport

I have broken legs and my feet are unable to move due to hanging on to the steel mesh for over a year and a half so as not to tumble forward and get caught in the bars of my slanted cage.  I have lived in excruciating agony and unbelievable stress for every hour of my existence since my hatching.  I am now being transported over eleven hundred miles in the bitter cold and I am not given any food or water.  Many of my fellow hens are frozen solid to the crate walls and are dead from  malnutrition, thirst and unimaginably cruel handling.

The  End

We have now travelled over eleven hundred miles and have arrived at the slaughterhouse.  The sounds of terror emanate from the walls.  My fear is more than I can bear.  A cruel hand has grabbed me by the neck and is hanging me upside down in shackles.  I am on a conveyor belt, and am heading towards the sharp blade that is to end my tortured life.  The blade finds my neck but does not kill me.  I am upside down and bleeding to death and suffocating on my own blood.  Now the conveyor is slowly but surely moving me towards a tank of scalding water.  I can feel the blood seeping from my body and I cannot take in air.  The horror and terror is beyond explanation.  I am being lowered slowly into the scalding water to be de-feathered but I am still alive!  How can this be happening to me?  What kind of soul could inflict such cruel torture on another living being?  They don't seem the slightest bit phased by what they are doing.  What have I done to deserve this?  Help Me!  Please Help Me! 

Now darkness...

About the Author

I am passionate about health issues, and the state of the health of our wonderful America. I believe the American Diet is literally killing us and I believe that lobby money is the reason that we have been brainwashed into the shift from a plant based diet to an animal based diet. The result has been an unprecedented increase in heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancers of all varieties. I believe Americans are suffering from a lack of truthful information concerning our diets. I enjoy writing motivational articles that will help to correct the problem regarding this lack of information and also examine the prevailing misinformation in the light of truth.

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