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Will you sign our petition for us? The petition asks people to support in trying to end the suffering of chickens. Basically we want to campaign with other groups against the use of battery hens. If you would like to support us, please click on the question mark and add your name to the list.

The great Chicken Myth: What exactly are the eggs that you are buying in the supermarket? What does it say on the box, 'Factory farmed eggs' or 'Barn eggs' or 'Free Range' or Organic. Well next time your in the supermarket check, if it says Factory Farmed - this means they are produced by hens in cages. If the box says - Barn Eggs your probably thinking that the hens have lots of space and are looked after. Wrong, the 'Barn' is actually a big industrial shed where the hens are kept in near darkness in their thousands where only the fittest survive. As many are bullied, trampled and squashed. Please avoid any eggs listed as Factory, Caged or Barn, the conditions for the hens are deplorable. Also if a box just says 'Smalltown Eggs' for example, these are usually caged eggs and this fact will only be put on the box in very small print, or on the inside of the box, so when you get them home, its too late.

I went into a leading supermarket and stood at the salad bar, where I noticed the free range eggs. Splitting one, the yolk was very pale which is an indication of caged eggs. So I asked one of the prep people if they really were free range eggs, he said of course they are, they can only cook and serve free range eggs. Can you prove it, I said. No, he answered. So I asked him to get the box out of the bin that the eggs had come from. Much to his embarassment the box read 'Caged Eggs'. The moral of the story, don't trust what the labels say, ask for proof.