This industry of the human has even developed ways to recycle the chickens' own wastes back into the diet. In a typical 80,000-hen warehouse, about 20 birds die per day. The hen house is hosed down in preparation for the next unfortunate batch of birds. Fear of unemployment and poverty keeps them at their gruesome task. They could not be more wrong.
Eggs are also hazardous to human health.
The average egg contains 213 mg of cholesterol, the highest cholesterol per mg of all animal foods people eat. Eggs cause food poisoning, particularly from salmonella, and contribute to obesity, heart disease, and other serious health problems. As a result of her candor, egg sales in England suddenly dropped 60 percent, and Ms. Currie was pressured to resign. Two months later, a confidential government report was leaked that stated that up to two million infections a year may be caused by the consumption of eggs and chickens in the United Kingdom. Because the symptoms of salmonellosis are similar to flu symptoms, many people have salmonella poisoning without realizing it.