According to a 2005 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there are approximately 291 million egg-laying hens in this country—that’s almost as many birds as there are people living in the United States!

The overwhelming majority of these hens spend nearly their entire lives confined inside wire battery cages so restrictive, they can’t even flap their wings. These birds will never build nests; they will never set foot outside; they will never feel the warmth of the sun. Relegated as mere egg-laying machines and deprived of almost everything natural to them, many experts agree that battery hens are among the most abused animals on today’s factory farms—yet battery-cage production continues to dominate the U.S. egg industry.

“A hen in a cage is actually not that much different from a traveler in a hotel with room service.”
— Trent Loos, spokesperson for agribusiness PR front group Faces of Agriculture, in Feedstuffs January 16, 2006

A growing number of consumers are discovering the hard-boiled truth about egg production despite the egg industry’s continued efforts to defend the indefensible. In COK’s ongoing efforts to expose the daily miseries endured by egg-laying hens, we created EggIndustry.com.

On this site, you’ll find up-to-date news articles, expert opinions, and links to egg-free recipes as well as a video room and photo gallery enabling you to take a virtual tour inside these massive, sunless egg factories. One such facility is the very Pennsylvania egg farm investigated by COK in December 2005 that is currently the subject of a criminal case of animal cruelty.