I stopped eating meat for the animals. Took me two more years to apply that same logic to eggs. Here's what I didn't know 👇

Today I stood outside a slaughterhouse in the Netherlands and watched 50,000 laying hens arrive to be gassed. Not sick. Not injured. Just no longer profitable to the egg industry. This happens every single day. #eggtruth 📹 @bartstaassen with @animalsavenederland

🐓 Nobody tells you a laying hen's body is slowly destroying itself to lay. Her bones leach calcium to form egg shells. Her reproductive system runs nonstop, because she was bred to lay 300+ eggs a year instead of 12. By 18 months, she's spent. #eggtruth

I got backyard chickens to escape factory farming. I made it worse. A thread about what thousands of chicken keepers are saying on Reddit — when no one is watching. 🧵

🕊️ Freedom shouldn’t come this late. This hen escaped her cage, but she couldn’t escape the toll of the egg industry. Selective breeding for high egg yields leaves these birds physically depleted, bone-tired, and broken. #eggtruth

🐓 She wants you to see her suffering. This is what egg farming really looks like. 👇 🔄 Please share to help share her story. #eggtruth

🐣 Because male chicks lack "commercial value," billions are culled globally every year on their very first day of life. 👉 Help us expose the hidden side of the egg industry by sharing this video. #eggtruth

🐣 Easter chicks, egg decorating, and school hatching projects all hide the same cruelty. An #eggtruth thread👇

🐣 Behind the festive imagery lies a harsh reality: many of these practices inflict cruelty on some of the most vulnerable creatures: chickens and baby chicks. 👇 buff.ly/3Ay7hBR

🐣 Easter joy shouldn’t cost a life. We’ve been told eggs are a harmless tradition. The truth? They’re the product of a system that views living beings as disposable commodities. Make the switch this season. Leave chicken out of your basket ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 Trapped in a metal cage. No space, no sunlight, no life. The egg industry is hiding in plain sight. We can choose plants. Hens deserve better. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🚨 THE FREE RANGE MYTH Certified. Assured. Award-winning. And still this. Undercover investigation into a free range egg farm reveals: 🐔 Severe overcrowding 🐔 Feather loss & injuries 🐔 Dead hens left among the living Please, eggs off our plates. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐤 She just hatched. 🔥 The tip of her beak burned off with a hot blade. No pain relief. It's called "debeaking" — and it's standard practice in every type of egg farming. Her beak has more nerve endings than human fingertips. Is their suffering worth the eggs? #eggtruth

After years of animal advocacy, brands pledged, countries banned battery cages, and restaurants rebranded. Cage-free became the feel-good upgrade. But feel-good for whom? An #eggtruth thread 👇

👍 Most people believe that eating eggs is a harmless choice for animals. 🫣 The reality inside industrial hatcheries tells a much different story. Share this video to spread awareness about factory farming and help others see the truth behind the carton. #eggtruth

🐓 The egg industry wants you to see the carton, not the corpse. She spent her final moments in a wire cage, exhausted and forgotten. Every egg comes with a side of systemic cruelty and death. Choose compassion instead. Choose plant-based. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐣 "Free-range." "Organic." "Humane." None of those labels saved him. Every male chick born into the egg industry is killed within hours, because he can't lay eggs, he's considered worthless. You can help end this cruelty: leave eggs off your plate ❌🥚 #eggtruth

The final hours of a laying hen’s life are marked by catching, crating, transport, and slaughter, yet this phase has shockingly weak legal protection. "The Hidden Stages of Egg Production: Depopulation" - an #eggtruth thread 👇

This hen didn't make it to the slaughterhouse. 😢 The egg industry traps hens in endless suffering—caged or cage-free. After 18 months of non-stop laying, ALL are replaced and killed. Help end this cruelty. Ditch eggs ❌🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 This hen lives on a cage-free egg farm. Is that what you imagined when you paid extra for the label? Here's the truth 👉️ buff.ly/cDYufb5 #eggtruth

🐓 You pay extra for "cage-free" because you care. But DYK the egg industry's loophole? Hens spend 16-20 weeks as pullets on rearing farms—often in wire cages or crowded aviaries. No outdoors. Stop funding the lie. Ditch eggs ❌🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 DYK: At any given moment, there are over 23 billion chickens on Earth, far surpassing the population of any other land animal. 👉️ buff.ly/YVzWjnr What if they would start to fight back? #eggtruth via @/menkay.ig

🐥 Born in a cage. 🐓 Die in a cage. 🐔 Never see the sun. Chickens in the egg industry spend every moment locked away, never feeling grass under their claws or the warmth of the sun on their backs. Help stop this cruelty by ditching eggs. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐥 PULLETS, the teenage hens whose suffering never makes it onto the carton. Part 3️⃣ of our series on the invisible stages of egg production - an #eggtruth thread 👇

🐥 Male chicks tossed alive into grinders by egg industry—worthless cuz they don't lay eggs. Billions are culled yearly. We say this MUST STOP. Agree? Leave eggs off your plate ❌ 🥚

🐓 They never saw sun or soil: hens dying in agony on egg farms, tossed like garbage. 💔 Breakfast worth this cruelty? Every hen matters. Leave eggs off your plate. #eggtruth

🐣 Your breakfast carton hides this: 38M male chicks killed daily. Plastic trays instead of nests. Machines instead of wings. This is day one in the egg industry. Every farm. Every label. Share to expose it. Choose egg-free today. 💔 #eggtruth

🤢 This is where supermarket eggs come from 👇

🐣 She fell. No one came. This is a hatchery — where billions of chicks are sorted like objects on an assembly line every year. "Cage-free" eggs. "Free-range" eggs. "Organic" eggs. They all start here. This is the egg industry. 💔 #eggtruth

🐓 She died in this cage. A prison she never left. Her life between metal and stressen hens. Every chicken in the egg industry is k*lled or dies before humans get a chance to. You can help end this cruelty : leave eggs off your plate. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🤑 Egg industry jackpot: "500 eggs by 100 weeks" means FEWER chickens for SAME eggs. Old way: Cull at 70 weeks—bodies wrecked, laying slows. Now: Breed for "persistency," squeeze 30 extra weeks of hell. Profit over life. 😡 #eggtruth

Did you know what the egg industry does to male chicks? The #eggtruth 👇

🤔 Eggs. Natural? Wild hens lay 10-15 eggs a year. The egg industry bred that number to 300. When hens can no longer produce, they're slaughtered. Free range. Organic. Cage free. Different labels. Same end. The #eggtruth 👇

🐣 Investigator found her barely alive in hatchery crate. Thousands chicks enter egg industry daily. Many dead within hours. She won't survive either. You hold the power to stop this cruelty: leave eggs off your plate ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

What happens to chicks on day one of life? 🐣 Undercover footage from inside a chicken hatchery shows newborn chicks being roughly handled, sorted, and killed as part of standard egg industry practice. You can help stop this: leave eggs off your plate ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 This is what "cage-free" looks like. Open wounds. Feathers ripped out. Standard practice. Please help her by leaving eggs off your plate. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

This is what's left. A broken egg. A feather. A concrete floor soaked in waste. 🐓 She laid this egg because her body was engineered to. Over 300 a year. None to keep. This is the hidden #eggtruth Choose compassion instead. Ditch eggs. ❌ 🥚

🐓 She was alive when we found her. Cage-free means tens of thousands of hens packed into a shed. Up to 40% of cage-free flocks experience cannibalism. She died on that floor. Production continued. Please leave eggs off your plate. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth #vegetarian

Unpopular opinion: go egg-free not cage-free if you truly care for hens. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 "Cage-free" was supposed to be progress. @peta's new white paper says otherwise: broken bones, disease, mass killings — just without the cages 👉️ buff.ly/1YdaUQm No label fixes a system built on exploitation. Stop eating eggs instead. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

❌ The "humane" egg doesn't exist. This is a breeder farm — where the chickens behind your cage-free, free-range and organic eggs are kept. You won't see this on the label. They deserved better than this. The only way to give it to her is to stop buying eggs. #eggtruth

🐓 I'm a backyard hen. I get more time than most hens, so you can actually see what this breeding does to our bodies. An #eggtruth thread 👇

🐓 Hens were bred to lay 300+ eggs a year. A manipulation that burns through their calcium, collapses their bones, and breaks them from the inside out. Watch the full movie 👉️ buff.ly/hMw5h8M #eggtruth

This is Lucy 🐓 👇 Lucy has been confined in a cage on an egg farm for about 18 months. Because hens have been selectively bred to lay almost an egg a day, her body and reproductive system are exceedingly overburdened. Learn more 👉️ buff.ly/wDSKDKe #eggtruth

🐓 Cages or cage-free. 🐓 Small farm or industrial. Country to country, undercover investigators keep finding the same suffering. Please, leave eggs off your plate. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth via @thehumaneleagueus.bsky.social

☠️ Dead birds left among the living. Parent flock hens and roosters—starved on purpose, fed only 40% of what they need, every day for a year. This is the hidden foundation of every egg carton. Choose compassion instead - leave eggs off your plate. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🥚 Every egg has a story you've never been told. This series reveals the 4 most invisible stages of egg production. Part 1: PARENT FLOCKS – Starved by Design An #eggtruth thread 👇

This non-vegan foodie is convinced: you don't need hens to have yummy eggz! Have you ever tried vegan alternatives? #eggtruth #vegetarian

❌ 🐓 These hens didn't make it to the slaughterhouse. Bred to lay 300+ eggs a year until their bodies gave out. Osteoporosis. Organ failure. Exhaustion. When they stopped producing, they were discarded like waste. This is the cruel #eggtruth. #vegetarian

Behind Burnbrae Farm's doors, hens live in cages to produce eggs sold at Farmboy & Sobeys. No cage can be humane. Real compassion means choosing egg-free. 💔🌱 via @AnimalJustice #eggtruth