Is it Humane to eat eggs laid by chickens who are kept in battery farms?

Question

Is it Humane to eat eggs laid by chickens who are kept in battery farms?

Answer 1

I'd say yes, chickens don't have much in terms of brains, you chop off their heads and they continue acting the same, headless chickens have been known to survive for months by people pouring food down their throats to keep their bodies nurished... I'm of the opinion that any creature that doesn't need a brain to act like it does with one is meant to be food

Answer 2

I don't recall the source, sorry, but there was a study a while back that showed no nutritional difference between standard eggs and free-range organic eggs.  The only real reason to choose the latter would be out of concern for the welfare of the chickens.

I have a friend who's a vegetarian.  She refers to eggs as "chicken periods."  :-P

Answer 3

We dont farm batteries, hon... we manufacture them.

Answer 4

I think the only answer to this is watch a video of a battery farm and makeyour own mind up. Everyone has their own ideas of what is humane, i personally went to the extreme and adopted some ex battery hens and now free range them in my garden  and receive 30 + eggs a week. A battery hen lives in a cage and has a space the size of an A3 piece of paper and after after 1-2 yrs are slaughtered, they are constantly pecked by others and end up with no feathers, some have their beaks cut or burnt off to stop this.

personal experience has taught me that the eggs i receive now are far richer than any battery produced eggs

Answer 5

Why is this in Philosophy? And no, not to the chickens who laid the eggs. Buy cage-free eggs which are always organic, so your health benifits.