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Vegetarian-fed hens don’t make a lot of sense because chickens are bloodthirsty scavengers. Sure they eat grains and seeds, but: earthworms, crickets, little specks of insects and fly larvae harvested in cow patties. All sorts of tiny buggy living things we can’t see and would probably rather not think about.of cannibalism after feeding his chickens a vegetarian diet. Apparently so deprived of protein, the chicks began eating each other .
almost all chicken eggs are kosherPhoto by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesConventional egg-laying hens live in battery cages: cramped mesh cells that prevent hens from ever stretching their wings, nesting, or doing much at all beside produce eggs. “Battery” might sound like the cages are electrified or the chickens are battered. But the term actually comes from how hundreds of the wire cells neighbor one another and share wire dividers—like the cells in a battery.
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