A California woman opened a carton of eggs one morning and was shocked to discover fluffy white feathers stuck to the sides of one egg.





The feathers were a startling reminder that the eggs purchased at grocery stores are not just ingredients but the products of living, feeling animals.









In the egg industry, male chicks are considered worthless and either ground up alive or suffocated in trash bags. The females often have their sensitive beaks burned off with a hot blade and endure lives in barren battery cages, each bird with floor space smaller than the surface of an iPad.







