The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

126 / the world peace diet
As with the dairy industry, the egg industry is founded upon the
total domination of the feminine, and upon the manipulation of female
bodies to maximize profits with no regard to the outrageous cruelty
involved. And because chickens are smaller and held in even lower
esteem than cows, they are brutalized even more blatantly in the quest
for cheap eggs. Female chicks are routinely debeaked, an exceedingly
traumatic operation in which about half of the beak is chopped off. The
hot blade cuts through the most sensitive nerve tissue in their beaks,
causing such acute pain that the birds’ heart rate increases by over one
hundred beats per minute. Many die on the spot. For those who survive,
the chronic pain from this procedure may last their whole lives and
interfere with eating. Male chicks are unneeded, so workers massannihilate
them, either by live suffocation and crushing in large plastic
trash bags or by dumping them living into machines with rotating
blades like wood chippers that turn them into instant chicken feed or
fertilizer. Hens who no longer produce enough eggs have also been disposed
of by being thrown living into the spinning blades of wood chipping
machines.
The egg industry acknowledges the huge number of diseases and
syndromes that are inherent in the battery system: painful foot and leg
deformities, as well as broken and tangled wings and legs, from the wire
cages; calcium deficiency, as well as painful prolapsed and distended
uteruses, from being forced to produce unnaturally large quantities of
eggs; caged layer osteoporosis, which is the loss of bone tissue directly
attributed to being immobilized; fatty liver syndrome and swollen head
syndrome due to poor-quality food and air and being forced to live constantly
in filth and stress; lung and eye problems from the ammoniadrenched
air; lost eyes from henpecks by desperate cagemates; and salmonella,
in which the hen’s oviducts become infested with salmonella
bacteria, passing the infection to consumers through the eggs. It is well
established that antibiotics are given to battery hens in basically one
hundred percent of egg operations to control the bacterial diseases that
thrive in these squalid conditions. Antibiotics are also found to increase
egg production, but, as with all creatures, including humans, antibiotics
increase other problems, since they disrupt and kill the intestinal