The truth behind just one of the horrors of eggs...and this is free range...dont be duped... While producers often dismiss the practice of debeaking as harmless, comparing it to clipping our own fingernails, chickens’ beaks are not like human fingernails at all; rather they are like fingertips— loaded with blood vessels, pain receptors, and sensory nerves that facilitate food detection in the wild. In a study entitled “The Bill Tip Organ of the Chicken,” researchers found that the tip of the chicken beak contains more sensory receptors than any other area of the beak, with a high concentration of free nerve endings and specialized sensory structures. In fact, debeaking is so painful for chickens that some die of shock on the spot; others die of starvation or dehydration because using their beaks is so excruciating, or their beaks are so disfigured that they cannot properly grasp and swallow food.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:06:22 +0000
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