Bad eggs

photo by Welt online

A German egg producer sold millions of his eggs coming from caging chicken as free range chicken eggs, the animal conservationist PETA revealed last Wednesday.

Edmund Haferbeck from PETA said that the producer in Brandenburg, a region in east Germany, sold at least 300 million eggs a year with a fake labelling to several super market chains all over Germany.

The animals were not kept in ways appropriate to their species. Nevertheless, they were sold as free range chicken eggs. PETA assumes that the producer made a higher profit of seven million Pounds (ten million Euro) because of the higher price of free range chicken eggs.

How awful is that? I always buy the better eggs. Better eggs? I know the free range chicken eggs are smaller and just don’t look that nice but I know that it comes from a happy chicken.

I don’t understand how you can earn your living from keeping thousands of hens in cages that are obviously far too small. Do the people working in such a place actually think about what they are doing? Everyone thinks with horror of the Holocaust. Why is it then ok to hold chicken like that? In my point of view it is a crime as well.

I know I am not the only one thinking like that. Some people, who do not have much money, relinquish their chocolate or cigarettes to be able to buy eggs from happy chickens rather than products of animal cruelty. Now it is shocking to find out that those people, probably including me, were actually eating those eggs. You can’t say: It is the thought that counts.

With every egg you bought, you were supporting animal cruelty. And people were not even aware of it. This producer has hurt the dignity of many Germans and I hope he will be punished accordingly.