Where does the egg for my breakfast come from?

 

 

 

While in Australia the cages have been forbidden since January 1st, 2009, you can still and legally buy eggs from chicken kept in cages. This is because in 2009 the most brutal form of caging in Austria was forbidden, but not the keeping of laying hens in so-called better cages. In these not so small cages the chicken have a bit more space, a plastic mat for scraping, a bar to sit on and something like a nesting area to lay their eggs. But even though the cages are larger there are still a lot of problems

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Firstly, hundreds of thousands of chickens still live in Austria in battery cages under artificial light and bestial stench and there are often cage on cage. So the farmer can keep thousands of chickens in a hall. But in the small cages the chicken have no space and they can’t move. There is also no sunlight, so they get sick and get brittle bones.

 

Secondly, because of intensive breeding and a special feed the chickens lay more eggs but have more stress and so they often hurt each other.

 

So what can we do? I think people should only buy the eggs with a stamp and not buy the cheapest eggs. Best we should only buy eggs with the label “Freilandhaltung” because these are eggs from happy  chicken which are allowed to live in nature.