An eggs-ellent campaign under way
The Humane Society of the United States, through its 2008 “All Creatures Great and Small” campaign, is asking you to go egg-free or at least change your egg-eating habits this month.
The society says that nearly 280 million laying hens in the U.S. are confined in barren, wire cages “so small the birds can’t even spread their wings.” The society says consumers can reduce animal suffering by making a few simple changes in their purchases.
The new campaign calls on the faith community in particular to take up this cause. It notes that many faiths have had holidays or feast days in October that focus on compassion, hope and charity. Christians celebrated the Feast day of St. Francis, Jews celebrated Yom Kippur and Muslims ended Ramadan with Eid-ul-fitr celebrations.
People of faith are asked to go online to pledge for one month to either switch to cage-free egs or egg substitutes as a way to end the “cruelest confinement systems employed by the egg industry.”
Specifically, the pledge is to “Make more humane food choices by committing to one or more of the following:
Switching to cage-free or free-range eggs;
Eating fewer eggs;
Replacing eggs with any of the widely available substitutes.”
For more information, visit http://allcreatures.hsus.org/
Carla Hinton
Religion Editor
(NOTE: The title of this post is just a play on words, not an endorsement of this campaign)
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