Tragic barn fire kills 200,000 hens

[Catherine]

The first question here should be how could there be 200,000 chickens in one building. How could there be a fire? They are quite common, especially in colder areas. Barn heaters fail and over heat. The 200,000 hens were trapped in small cages with no way to escape. All they could do was struggle and try to escape as the fire engulfed them. It was not a gentle death. This fire was one of many barn fires where many animals died.

Someone speaking for the farm said no one was injured. No human perhaps, but 200,000 lives were lost.

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This fire shows one more reason why the intense way we produce eggs is cruel. The hens died horrible deaths, but they were already living horrible lives.
We need safer barns, but we also need less cruelty in the was we produce eggs.
We all know hens in egg laying cages is cruel. The whole way the hens are produced is cruel. The little male chicks tossed live into a grinding machine is cruel. 
We all know this. So why is it still going on?