chickens

The Problem with Backyard Chickens

The Problem with Backyard Chickens

Backyard chicken keeping, while seemingly a kinder alternative to commercial egg production, often replicates the same ethical and practical issues on a smaller scale.

Scrambling for Solutions: Ethical Choices for Easter Eggs

Scrambling for Solutions: Ethical Choices for Easter Eggs

Easter, a time of joy and renewal, masks the harsh reality of hens suffering in the egg industry, facing confinement and exploitation. Behind the colorful Easter eggs lies a story of confinement, deprivation, and exploitation for these birds, offering no hope of renewal or rebirth.

The Cage-Free Illusion: Part 1

The Cage-Free Illusion: Part 1

Unravel the paradox of the cage-free movement: while hailed as progress, it inadvertently perpetuates systemic issues within the egg industry. Delve into the hidden realities shaping our food system and challenge the status quo with us.

How to Love All Animals

How to Love All Animals

Veganism is about shattering that carnist lens and seeing the individuals behind our meals and removing them from our plates one by one. It’s about discovering that we can thrive on plant-based foods alone. It’s about learning that the future of our food system isn't factory farming or genetic manipulation, but rather love, compassion, and the abundant variety of plant-based proteins.

Dead Ones - Exposing the Truth for True Transformation

Dead Ones - Exposing the Truth for True Transformation

With the EU's unified trade area, consumers find it challenging to track the origins of the eggs they purchase, especially when used as ingredients. In May and June 2023, two undercover activists documented the grim reality of hens kept on a farm operated by the largest egg producer in Poland and the entire European Union – Fermy Drobiu Woźniak.

Peeling Back the Layers of the Egg Industry: Egg-Truth Team on 'The Vegan Report'

Peeling Back the Layers of the Egg Industry: Egg-Truth Team on 'The Vegan Report'

Egg-truth.com is the initiative revealing what goes on behind the scenes of the egg industry. Beyond the marketing lies of the poultry business hides a harsh reality of merciless exploitation. Join Nigel, Julie, and Ryan in discussing the fate of chickens, the largest standing population of a single bird species in Earth's history.

Buying chicks is NOT compatible with loving animals

Buying chicks is NOT compatible with loving animals

Why keeping backyard chickens as a response to the egg shortage is not the solution to the problem, and why it's crucial to understand the welfare issues in the egg industry instead.

World Egg Day and the Silent Suffering of Hens

World Egg Day and the Silent Suffering of Hens

While trying to avoid calling them 'healthy' (which is currently illegal according to FDA) the industry’s marketing team is working hard to present the nutritional composition as a miracle unicorn of affordable foods. Yet, one fact is ignored and left out every year: the suffering of the hens.