Disney eggs are the latest corporate abomination to hit the grocery shelves. A recent commercial for the Disney-stamped and endorsed eggs was spotted on American television today, reports Jezebel, an online news source. The commercial shows the Mickey Mouse stamped eggs magically turning into Mickey Mouse shaped fried eggs. Whether this is a promotion for a movie or a tie-in with agri-farming nobody knows.
However, considering that the eggs are not marked organic or freerange, it is safe to assume the eggs are from chickens raised in battery hen facilities. In North America, too often people are fooled by the pretty pictures on egg packages; showing a happy cartoon chicken munching on some bright green grass. These ‘food stories’ could not be further from the reality of the lives of the more than 300 million egg-laying hens in North America.
Most hens live in factory farms, the animal equivalent of a concentration camp. With about 8x11 inches allotted per egg-laying hen, the creatures are placed in wire battery cages at 18 weeks old, stacked tier upon tier in warehouses, they can’t turn around nor spread their wings, their beaks are burnt off without anaesthetic or painkillers, fed heavily medicated pellets, they never see sunlight or walk on the ground.
Putting Mickey Mouse on the package and trying to conjure up ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ is not going to change the reality of how hens are raised in factory farms (The Unhappiest Place on Earth).
Via: Jezebel
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