A woman who gave up her job to rescue caged chickens and campaign for ethical egg farming has been attacked by extreme vegans who think eating eggs is evil.

Former anti-fraud officer Haidy Mansfield, who has nine birds at her Dorset home, has been slammed by animal activists who believe she is promoting an ‘evil’ lifestyle for urging her followers to buy ethically-farmed eggs.

She told the Telegraph: ‘They don’t believe chickens should be used full stop. That the eggs aren’t ours to take.

Haidy Mansfield has dedicated her life to campaign for ethical egg farming (Picture: Facebook)

She has nine birds at her Dorset home, including rescued hens Fleur and Belle (Picture: Facebook)

‘They aren’t going to agree, they see me as perpetuating the issue by promoting that people choose to buy ethical eggs. I just say that if you’re going to eat eggs, be mindful about where they’re from.’




Despite saying that she understands their passion, she admitted that the comments had her upset her.

She explained that some people in the vegan society had taken it upon themselves to ‘sabotage every post I write’.

Haidy added: ‘They have no qualms upsetting, belittling or insulting people who eat eggs and support my mission to bring an end to cage egg farming.’

She said that she wasn’t intentionally trying to offend anyone with her campaigning (Picture: Facebook)

She did however stress that many of her vegetarian and vegan friends support her mission.

Haidy shares pictures of her rescued chickens Belle and Fleur and has 21,000 followers on her Facebook page Little Cage Fighters.

She has dedicated her life to promote ethical egg farming and believes that all chickens deserves to ample space and get to spend enough time in fresh air.

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