Secret video reveals gas chamber deaths of egg industry hens

Wish I hadn’t watched that, makes me so angry. The people responsible for this need to be held to account.

This is approved by the RSPCA Assured program.

> “RSPCA Assured said the birds in the footage were already unconscious and were not in pain”

What a joke. People give their hard earned money to this charity to protect animals and instead they take money from the people that do this nonsense, in exchange for the use of their respected brand to make consumers think they are making an ethical choice buying those products.

I mean not to sound callous or cruel but is it particularly painful for the chicken as a method of dispatch? -i honestly don’t know genuine question.
If it isn’t then it’s not exactly a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon but when farming on an Industrial scale you have to use industrial techniques.

You guys haven’t seen a pig being slaughtered have you? This is nothing compared to that.

Aside from local farms or smaller local holdings/honesty boxes does anyone here have any good recommendations for ethical eggs?

Things like this always make me consider just where I’m buying from but if this is RSCPA certified it makes it difficult to feel confident in any choice.

For as long as animals are used as commodities they’ll be treated like them. Places that breed, exploit and kill animals are always gonna find the cheapest way to do it not the nicest.

And if you think this is shocking, you should see what we do to humans.

What part of that is secret…? We know ages ago, but now the media picks it up, everyone goes wow!

Once had a chat with someone who worked in a chicken place. He said they got investigated one time as many birds had broken wings etc., and inspectors thought they were mistreating them. What they actually determined was the gas process itself makes the chickens fight so bad for their life some would get injuries before their death. The sad reality is when you need to butcher hundreds of thousands of chickens per day this is the result. I asked if it would be possible to do manual methods and he said it would essentially be impossible due to the volume of butchered chickens going out and new hens coming in.

im not quite sure this video and article are being honest. it does not state that these animals are unconscious at the time of gassing and so these movements you see are simply the body reactions without consciousness being a driving force of it. its UK law that animals are stunned before slaughter except for religious practices so these are sleeping chickens being killed.

Interesting & incredibly loaded headline?

Supposes it is better & more humane being gassed than being ripped apart & eaten alive by predators or their throat slashed by antiquated religious practices!

Don’t ask what happens to male chicks.

Especially bad when we now have the tech to identify them prior to incubation.

I think we need to wake up and realise that “cheap and readily available” has consequences we might not like.

I’m not saying eggs should become a luxury for the wealthy, but maybe we shouldn’t take them for granted like we do.

Vegans posting another distasteful video of food animals being killed because they can’t persuade people to adopt their value system by argument? Must be a day ending in a ‘y’.

Yes, death is unpleasant to watch. It’s also a lazy tactic to resort to posting unpersuasive shock videos.