Hey UK people! What's a battery egg?!
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Answers: What is it? Why is it a big deal that Jamie Oliver used or served them?
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There are 30,000,000 chickens in this country - 85% of these are 'living' in Battery Farms.
70% of the above are kept in sheds containing 20,000 birds or more, some up to 100,000.
The minimum legal requirement of space for one bird is just under three quarters the size of an A4 sheet of paper.
Most farms have 4 or 5 birds per cage. The cages being approx. 20 inches x 20 inches (500 x 500)
Cages usually extending from one end of the shed to the other, up to six stacks high.
With artificial 'sunrise and sunset' plus fortified foods, the average annual egg yield of one hen is 338 per year.
Over 2,000,000 chickens die in their cages each year from disease caused by improper control of faeces clearing.
Chicken beaks are cut to stop them causing too much damage to each other.
They spend approximately 72 weeks in this condition before they are slaughtered for pet food, even pies for us.
By then, most are suffering from brittle bones caused by standing on the wire bottoms of their cages.
Its an egg that comes from a battery hen (a hen which lives in a big warehouse crammed full of other hens) they live in the dark and are fed rubbish food in stressful conditions.
one kept inhumanely in a barn/factory in a small confined cage (battery cell) your general intensive farming method.
Oh and jamie has been leading a campaign against this type of chicken and egg consumption in the UK, had an hour long television programme devoted to it last Thursday.
it is an egg produced in factory conditions with the chickens unable to move due to over crowding they are in humanely treated it is very cruel
Battery eggs
This term refers to eggs laid by chickens that are permanently caged. Although they are not required to be labelled as such, eggs are from battery-raised hens unless labeling indicates otherwise.
battery farming is where you put chickens in tiny boxes and they live there and it's really bad! only ever eat free range organic eggs/chickens! Jamie Oliver also said alot about how bad it is then he went and used them himself so he's a big hypocrite but apparently he didn't know.
A battery egg is an egg that has a battery.
An Ever Ready one? Most of the supermarket eggs come from battery hens. Sometimes they are kept in cruel conditions, although one farmer showed me around his sheds, and conditions were good there. I was visiting him on another business matter, my visit wasn't pre-planned, so there was no smartening up. He was rightly proud of his set-up.
Some hens are kept in such crowded filthy conditions that the hens endure severe suffering. Jamie is trying to improve their lot by boycotting the eggs.
It is an egg with a copper top