Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a man in a cage!

I buy organic because I like organic. I grew up on a farm and that’s how we had them.

Hubby, on the other hand, deliberates shits me when he buys eggs that aren’t organic (well when he’s home from sea). Seriously he does it to piss me off and then he spends hours cleaning up egg off the kitchen floor because I’ve dropped them. (And yes I know the money was already given to the battery hen people but it’s the principle)

How long is their unnatural life ? Is it longer or shorter than average ? Do you actually know or are you just standing on a pedestal ?

I think your arguments are unclear.

I personally do not tolerate cage eggs, and I use my purchasing power to ensure that free range is supported. Naturally the market will follow suit, much the same way as dolphin-safe tuna, non-roadkill kangaroo, and the others.

Sitting in a cage outside in the middle of winter is stupid though, especially when they can have just as much an effect by going to woolies and buying all of the free range eggs, effecting a change in marketplace economics as demand outstrips supply.

Well I for one hope that they are reincarnated as battery hens, stuck into A4 size cages for the duration of their unnatural lives, and have their beaks cut off and their legs twisted into bizarre shapes by their incarceration until one day they are deemed to be no longer useful and disposed of.

Did I hear someone say public servant ?

List to all these ignoramuses and no balls who can’t handle the reality of giving a sh*t about the reality of animal cruelty so therefore dismiss it as rubbish because actually opening there eyes and there minds from there baseless existence might actually cause them to think.
You’d get charged if you did similiar things to your family cat or dog, so what’s the difference betweent hem and the hens.
They all feel pain, they all scream in pain….
please enlighten me with your informed knowledge of why its fine to be cruel for no other reason that monetary profit….

Listen to all these moonbats and soft cocks screeching about the supposed obscenity and cruelness of battery hens.

Unhappy hens don’t lay. Nothing wrong with battery farmed eggs.

i second that JD114.

It’s a sad indictment of our species that people such as bobbo123, gurunik, barking toad, kimba, choose to believe that battery farming is OK. Well I for one hope that they are reincarnated as battery hens, stuck into A4 size cages for the duration of their unnatural lives, and have their beaks cut off and their legs twisted into bizarre shapes by their incarceration until one day they are deemed to be no longer useful and disposed of.

It’s not about banning all farming. It is about banning an unneccesary cruel practice like battery hens, when there is a perfectly acceptable alternative – free range, or barn laid eggs.

Oops, sorry.

Just noticed that Deb’s going to lay with them.

Hope it rains before 4pm today.

And shouldn’t they have some hens were in the cage too? For solidarity.

kimba –
I will be happy when all cruel animal farming is ceased.
They are protesting to get battery caeg hen’s banned – hence why they are doing it outside the leg assesmby and not tearing down fences.

Is that Katy Gallagher sitting in the cage?

The chick in the cage looks like an OK layer.

(Tee hee)

Same old…same old rent-a-crowd.

What you bleeding hearts don’t understand, is that it is chickens today and eventually it will be sheep, cattle etc. These freaks will not be happy until all animal farming is ceased.

Apparently the old witch Deb Foskey is going in the cage today – so you can go and see a real battery hen in a cage.

I’d like to throw organic free range eggs at the attention seeking hippies

if that is all that drives them to sit in a cage…for f.ck’s sake will someone lift the protesting game? totally pissant and they deserve to be laughed at. picket the farm if you’re that turned on by the (minor) issue. and then go cut every fence you see to ‘free’ the animals. this is why i’m not a hippy any more. and give my tax dollars back too…..

sounds like something from Simpsons

I for one welcome our new gallinine overlords.

(OK I had to use google to find the adjective for chicken-like)

That’s the number one issue facing our society at the moment.. The plight of poor battery hens.

How can we all sleep at night?

Just pump’em full of hormones.

They don’t look very tasty. Not much breast meat there at all.

If the sheila layed an egg, I’d eat it.

Hehe…I remember that teacher…They have good points, thats for sure. Might go and see them at some point.

i signed their petition on the way back from the gym at lunch.

how can people eat battery hen eggs knowing the cost at which they were produced?! disgusting. i barely ever eat eggs being pretty much ovo-vegetarian forever but when i buy eggs i buy free range organic.

I’m glad that this issue is getting attention and therefore hopefully getting people thinking.
Most people I know seem to be of the mentality that they’d rather not know… thinking hurts there heads/

How much for a dozen eggs?

Yes they are cold and do appreciate a coffee if you feel so inclined (soy latte with extra sugar!) but are very happy for a chat.

Photos where taken not long after suffering a verbal spray from Canberra’s local beret wearing nutter which may account for the miserable looks on one or two faces.