Hens bashed, gassed, and found dead at egg farm—the survivors need your help now!

Action Alert

Dear Aaaaaaa,

A recent PETA exposé of a filthy egg factory farm near Sulphur, Oklahoma, that supplied eggs to, among others, The Kroger Co.—which sold them as Kroger-brand eggs—revealed that more than 49,000 hens were yanked out of their cages and crudely gassed. Workers beat the survivors' heads against trucks and tried to break their necks—but some were still alive and left to die slowly and in agony.

During a heat wave earlier this summer, nearly 8,000 hens died when the farm's sheds reached 106 degrees. Many of the dead birds had apparently succumbed to heatstroke, a terrifying death often accompanied by seizures. When the temperature in the farm's massive sheds soared day after day, the hens—who are unable to sweat—panted in an effort to cool themselves.

PETA's eyewitness found that many birds were simply left to decay inside their cages. The survivors were confined alongside the rotting corpses of their cagemates for days on end.

The bodies were eventually tossed into manure pits, where feces had accumulated in piles up to 5 feet high. In one pit, a debilitated hen was found amid other chickens' rotting remains and with no water. When the eyewitness reported this bird's plight to a worker, he said that she'd be dead soon and walked away, leaving her to die.

Hens had no place to stand, sit, or lie down except on the wire flooring of the cages, which digs into their feet.

The local sheriff's office has opened a criminal investigation of the farm, and Kroger has now announced that it's taking steps to suspend its ties with the farm. But the animal abuse found there by the eyewitness isn't an exception. Over and over again, PETA has found that hens used by the egg industry are condemned to a lifetime of abuse and neglect—and a terrifying, painful death.

You can make a tremendous difference today for the billions of intelligent, gentle hens who are suffering so severely right now.

Bring them closer to a day free of unrelenting stress, fear, misery, and agony. Please, take a minute to speak out for these living, feeling beings.