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    3 days ago

    https://archive.is/ITR1e for the paywall

    The laws these industries are trying to overturn are just ones that set such low standards it’s truly insane. Cage-free still means plenty of cruelty and yet that’s still much for the egg industry

    For instance, practices like chick culling exist in most of the world including the US. Billions of male chicks are shred alive around the world right after birth

    Or forced molting is quite common in the US where they intentionally starve a flock for a 7-14 days to increase egg production rates after it

    Among other broader problems like how they’ve been bred to produce eggs at such high rates they start getting tons of bone health problems. I could keep going on and on, but I think that’s enough to get the idea