Eggs

We often hear people say that they can’t bear to watch videos of animals suffering – suffering which is a reality for billions of animals every year.

The UK has a laying flock of 34.8 million chickens, each one of whom lays roughly 314 eggs per year.

To mark World Environment Day on 5 June, here a few nuggets of information to any meat-, dairy- and egg-eating “environmentalists” you happen to know.

Livestock industry responsible for a very significant proportion of global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Last week, PETA’s loveable “pig” and “cow” joined the protesters at St Paul’s Cathedral.

The idea of schools putting fertilised chicken eggs in incubators in classrooms and letting students watch the eggs hatch two to four weeks later is missing something important!