Happy Easter?

While you're dipping those hard boiled goodies for the kids, consider that 85% of eggs produced in the US are from "battery caged" hens. This type of confinement is considered the cruelest form of commercial agriculture. Example:

“After six weeks in the incredibly crowded cages of this facility, you could not recognize the poor creatures as chickens, ” writes an internet commentator of a summer he worked on a egg farm. “Missing most of their feathers, eyes, bloody, broken and unable to walk, our job was to grab these birds, by any means necessary, and throw them into a truck. Where did the truck go? To a chicken soup plant a few towns over. Unable to sell these bruised and battered chickens as whole chickens, the egg plant owners would sell them to be made into soup base. As if their lives were not hellish enough to that point, these birds would be flung, often after being battered against the pillars of the plant and kicked a few times for fun by the sadistic workers, who were mainly teenagers and weird illiterate country bumpkins. The chickens, nearly dead, would be transported in unheated trucks to the soup plant to be battered and likely boiled alive to make soup . . .”

Yum.