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As farmed animal advocacy continues to emerge as the most important animal rights issue today, more and more attention is being focused on the egg industry. Indeed, the European Union has agreed to phase out conventional battery cages by 2012, and Germany has agreed to ban all battery cages in 2007. In the United States, major fast-food companies are taking the first steps towards recognizing the inherent cruelty of battery cages and are now requiring that their egg suppliers increase the amount of space per hen in each cage.
A growing movement against battery cages—and other cruel egg industry practices such as debeaking and forced molting—is becoming increasingly vocal about the misery endured by egg-laying hens.
This investigation, like other recent egg factory farm investigations, is intended to expose the cruelty inherent in commercial egg production and to ask consumers to take stand against such abuse by refusing to buy eggs.
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