Battery-Farmed Egg Industry in India
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400,000 Views
across social media
280,000
battery-farmed hens
1 Collaboration
with The Logical Indian
The Issue
India is one of the fastest-growing egg producers in the world, with billions of eggs being produced per year, and that number is expected to rise rapidly. This growth has seen an increase in western-style “mega-farms”. Hens used for their eggs often spend their whole lives crammed into tiny cages, with no space to even spread their wings.
Moving Animals visited and documented at an intensive egg farm in Mysuru, a city in India's southwestern Karnataka state. Over 280,000 hens were crammed into three sheds, with as many as eight hens crammed into a single cage. These animals are barely protected by law and they will spend their whole lives in these cages until their egg production begins to wane, which is when they will likely be sent to the abattoir to have their throats slit. Some didn’t even make it that far - we witnessed chickens that had been crushed to death inside the cages due to the sheer overcrowding.
Impact:
The Logical Indian
To ensure that this video met the intended targeted audience - India’s youth are driving the consumption of eggs - we produced and published a video with prominent news platform The Logical Indian, where it received nearly 400,000 views and generated a conversation about the ethics of farming animals.
It triggered conversations about the cruelty behind eating eggs, with many claiming they would no longer be supporting the industry - a true testament to the power of social media, and of images and footage, to inspire positive change.
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