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Posted: 10/23/2016 8:27:18 PM EST
No Costcos near me so me no care.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3861404/Her-head-torn-Disturbing-video-chickens-held-horrific-conditions-Costco-cage-free-barn.html Shocking video footage shot by animal rights activists at a Costco egg farm in California shows chickens living in appalling conditions and pecking each other to death. The eggs produced at the farm are being labelled as 'cage-free', but the video released earlier this week casts doubt over the animals' living conditions. The chickens, many missing their feathers and gravely injured, are living on top of each other in a crowded barn, and are covered in feces. The film, shot by the group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), also appears to show chickens eating one another as well as dead birds lining the floor of the Farmington egg farm where they are based. |
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I assume Costco eggs come in like a 48 pack or some shit... I don't eat that many eggs.
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I have my own egg factory in the back yard. Come get me PETA!
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When we had hens, I calculated that based on the cost of feed I was paying about twice of what I paid for store-bought eggs. Which is part of the reason we don't have hens anymore.... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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you want organic, free range eggs? or you want cheap eggs? When we had hens, I calculated that based on the cost of feed I was paying about twice of what I paid for store-bought eggs. Which is part of the reason we don't have hens anymore.... Yeah, doesn't pay off. but my wife insists. oh well. |
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Yeah I ain't care when Costco eggs are $4 for 36ct
Heartless? |
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As someone who currently has chickens and has for a while, I find it hard to believe that those chickens lay any eggs in that condition. Chickens are pretty sensitive when it comes to laying and even a bit of stress will cause them to not lay. I have been to commercial operations as well and while not perfect conditions the birds were at least fully feathered and looked healthy. In order for them to even be able to lay they have to have a steady supply and protein and calcium and being healthy enough to lay they would look much better than that.
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you want organic, free range eggs? or you want cheap eggs? View Quote USDA: Questions and Answers about Shell Eggs Question: Are Free Range or Cage Free eggs nutritionally better than eggs from hens in a caged environment? Answer: Free Range or Cage Free eggs denote the environment in which the laying hens were housed in. Currently, USDA does not have definitive scientific data stating a nutritional difference in egg nutrition, due to hen housing. |
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You can tell everything you need to know about an egg or the chicken that laid it from the yolk.
I pay a lot of money for organic pasture raised eggs and chicken. Big sunrise orange yolks and strong shells. |
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Quoted: As someone who currently has chickens and has for a while, I find it hard to believe that those chickens lay any eggs in that condition. Chickens are pretty sensitive when it comes to laying and even a bit of stress will cause them to not lay. I have been to commercial operations as well and while not perfect conditions the birds were at least fully feathered and looked healthy. In order for them to even be able to lay they have to have a steady supply and protein and calcium and being healthy enough to lay they would look much better than that. View Quote There wouldn't be any eggs |
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Buddy told me that Costco cut down on the size of their egg offerings due to pressure from some liberal group.
As I recall he said they went from 48 to 36. |
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I worked at a small chicken farm once. My job was to come clean out the dead chicken bodies each morning. In all fairness to Costco, chickens are the most inventive creatures I've ever seen when it comes to killing themselves.
Some got pecked to death for no reason. Some got trampled, even when there was plenty of space. Some hung themselves by sticking their heads in crevices and panicking. I'd come back the next day and some would just be a puddle of soup- no real reason how they got wrecked that bad. I favorite chicken crime scene was the day after one of the pipes sprung a leak. The owners put a 5 gallon bucket down to catch the water until they could get it fixed the next day. So I come back in the morning and find a chicken floating on the top of a bucket of water, unable to move. WTF, chicken? So I yank it out and let it go. Oh... it was standing on a dead chicken that had drowned... WTF? so I clear that carcass and find it... standing on another dead chicken. Being a smart CCSI (Chicken Crime Scene Investigator), I quickly pieced together what happened: Chicken #1 sees the bucket. Somehow, it jumps in but forgets how to jump out, and for some reason can't just knock the bucket over. At any time, any movement of Chicken #1 could have knocked the bucket over, it took hours to fill one drop at a time. So it stands patiently while the water DRIP DRIP DRIPS like an Edgar Allen Poe story. Eventually... it drowns. Chicken #2 jumps in and stands on Chicken #1, seemingly incapable of swimming or jumping. Now, Chicken #1 I felt bad for, because maybe it couldn't jump that high in the bucket. But Chicken #2 only needed one good burst to get up, it could've easily cleared the side. NOPE. Over time, it drowns too. Chicken #3 comes along, and again can't swim or jump, so it sits in the top several inches of water, paralyzed by its own stupidity until I rescued it. Stupid chickens. |
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Theres nothing more American than eating eggs from a disease infested hen house. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I don't care. I will eat them anyway. Theres nothing more American than eating eggs from a disease infested hen house. Man, I swear I thought you said whore house. |
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My egg factory is slowing down, it does this time of year when sunlight diminishes but they're still keeping me stocked.
Peta wants to look at my birds, they would do well to remember chickens are omnivorous. |
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I worked at a small chicken farm once. My job was to come clean out the dead chicken bodies each morning. In all fairness to Costco, chickens are the most inventive creatures I've ever seen when it comes to killing themselves. Some got pecked to death for no reason. Some got trampled, even when there was plenty of space. Some hung themselves by sticking their heads in crevices and panicking. I'd come back the next day and some would just be a puddle of soup- no real reason how they got wrecked that bad. I favorite chicken crime scene was the day after one of the pipes sprung a leak. The owners put a 5 gallon bucket down to catch the water until they could get it fixed the next day. So I come back in the morning and find a chicken floating on the top of a bucket of water, unable to move. WTF, chicken? So I yank it out and let it go. Oh... it was standing on a dead chicken that had drowned... WTF? so I clear that carcass and find it... standing on another dead chicken. Being a smart CCSI (Chicken Crime Scene Investigator), I quickly pieced together what happened: Chicken #1 sees the bucket. Somehow, it jumps in but forgets how to jump out, and for some reason can't just knock the bucket over. At any time, any movement of Chicken #1 could have knocked the bucket over, it took hours to fill one drop at a time. So it stands patiently while the water DRIP DRIP DRIPS like an Edgar Allen Poe story. Eventually... it drowns. Chicken #2 jumps in and stands on Chicken #1, seemingly incapable of swimming or jumping. Now, Chicken #1 I felt bad for, because maybe it couldn't jump that high in the bucket. But Chicken #2 only needed one good burst to get up, it could've easily cleared the side. NOPE. Over time, it drowns too. Chicken #3 comes along, and again can't swim or jump, so it sits in the top several inches of water, paralyzed by its own stupidity until I rescued it. Stupid chickens. View Quote I've always thought of chickens as filthy, addled members of a suicide-homicide cult. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I tried to taste the difference between a 'bought-in-bulk' egg, and a single egg raised in a hate-free tropical paradise.
I couldn't. They were both delicious with bacon. |
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Quoted: I've always thought of chickens as filthy, addled members of a suicide-homicide cult. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I worked at a small chicken farm once. My job was to come clean out the dead chicken bodies each morning. In all fairness to Costco, chickens are the most inventive creatures I've ever seen when it comes to killing themselves. Some got pecked to death for no reason. Some got trampled, even when there was plenty of space. Some hung themselves by sticking their heads in crevices and panicking. I'd come back the next day and some would just be a puddle of soup- no real reason how they got wrecked that bad. I favorite chicken crime scene was the day after one of the pipes sprung a leak. The owners put a 5 gallon bucket down to catch the water until they could get it fixed the next day. So I come back in the morning and find a chicken floating on the top of a bucket of water, unable to move. WTF, chicken? So I yank it out and let it go. Oh... it was standing on a dead chicken that had drowned... WTF? so I clear that carcass and find it... standing on another dead chicken. Being a smart CCSI (Chicken Crime Scene Investigator), I quickly pieced together what happened: Chicken #1 sees the bucket. Somehow, it jumps in but forgets how to jump out, and for some reason can't just knock the bucket over. At any time, any movement of Chicken #1 could have knocked the bucket over, it took hours to fill one drop at a time. So it stands patiently while the water DRIP DRIP DRIPS like an Edgar Allen Poe story. Eventually... it drowns. Chicken #2 jumps in and stands on Chicken #1, seemingly incapable of swimming or jumping. Now, Chicken #1 I felt bad for, because maybe it couldn't jump that high in the bucket. But Chicken #2 only needed one good burst to get up, it could've easily cleared the side. NOPE. Over time, it drowns too. Chicken #3 comes along, and again can't swim or jump, so it sits in the top several inches of water, paralyzed by its own stupidity until I rescued it. Stupid chickens. I've always thought of chickens as filthy, addled members of a suicide-homicide cult. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile We've had laying hens for several years and its not uncommon for one to just fall over dead occasionally. Buddy of mine has a meat chicken farm, six house, 25k birds per house or so. He says he loses about 75 a day per house that just die for no good reason, acceptable losses still at that. |
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Absolutely. And they only wish to inform the public of this injustice, and do not wish to damage any industry or person. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I'm sure they are a trustworthy group making this video Absolutely. And they only wish to inform the public of this injustice, and do not wish to damage any industry or person. 24 or 5 dozen |
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I've got 20 girls in the back yard giving me delicious eggs. I laugh at Costco eggs.
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Hippies pushing for cage free is the stupidest thing ever.
It's hard for some to understand, but birds are in a cage for their own safety. Cage free is always dirtier and less humane. People don't understand, good farmers want their birds healthy and happy. They don't need regulations telling them how to do it. Healthy animals are profitable animals. |
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I'm sure they are a trustworthy group making this video View Quote I'd trust them about as far as I'd trust any other lying, leftist, dishonest, self-serving, agenda-driven fucksticks in America! That being said, a dozen jumbo eggs from Walmart are $1.25 and I always have 3 dozen on hand. We eat a lot of eggs (low-carb dieting). |
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Hippies pushing for cage free is the stupidest thing ever. It's hard for some to understand, but birds are in a cage for their own safety. Cage free is always dirtier and less humane. People don't understand, good farmers want their birds healthy and happy. They don't need regulations telling them how to do it. Healthy animals are profitable animals. View Quote Set the whooping cranes free Meat Tossers! |
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can we transplant the egg laying capability to humans?
only then can we be sustainable. it's for the chickens |
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Quoted: When we had hens, I calculated that based on the cost of feed I was paying about twice of what I paid for store-bought eggs. Which is part of the reason we don't have hens anymore.... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: you want organic, free range eggs? or you want cheap eggs? When we had hens, I calculated that based on the cost of feed I was paying about twice of what I paid for store-bought eggs. Which is part of the reason we don't have hens anymore.... |
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Chickens are stupid animals. They peck each other to death even on the open range.
I just don't care. Eggs are a superfood. |
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i sell eggs wholesale. right now my cost is 6.25 for 15 dozen large eggs
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For chickens, this group is shocked and outraged. I wonder if they are equally outraged over late term abortions?
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All chickens live in appalling conditions, have their beaks and wings clipped, and lay eggs until they expire.
That's the cost of cheap food. |
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Something tells me the chickies don't fucking care. They can be really dirty nasty animals.
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I was just telling my wife that Costco "Cage Free" eggs have a noticeably harder shell than the local grocery store's generic eggs. I thought it had to do with cage free but what do I know.
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