Mexico: Cage-free egg is an animal-friendly, feasible, and profitable practice

José Luis Martínez In the last Years ago, complaints began to circulate, massively, about how cruel could be egg production in countries like Mexico, with highly intensive in the main production centers, such as the state from Jalisco. In these images show the painfully cruel conditions to which he is subjected to the chickens, which are placed in cages where they cannot even turn, remain sick without veterinary care or receive doses of antibiotics unnecessarily, causing the germs that affect them develop resistance. But even Organizations such as Animal Equality Mexico denounced situations such as presence of hens dying inside and outside the cages or even dead inside industrial warehouses, or subjected to other cruel practices such as forced molting or pelecha, where “the feed and water chickens until their body weight is reduced by 20 percent in just three days, to force a second egg laying cycle, bringing them to the brink of death.” Before these evidence, organizations such ...