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| - Hickman's eggs....not so much. You can find them at Basha's as a local egg product. I can't say I'm proud to use this local product. In fact, I don't use this product at all, the production of this product disgusts me.
The problem with the eggs is the way they are produced. Hickman's has 4,000,000 - yes 4million- caged birds.It keeps over 200,000 in the barns at this farm, alone. The city of Chandler has about the same population.
The cage is as big as a sheet of paper, so if you are a chicken, you won't be moving around too much, in fact not at all. Though the chickens are packed in tight, there is no fighting. Because, the Hickmans see to it that the chickens' beak is snipped off, to ensure they don't peck each other. So, there you are, sitting on a wire mesh the size of a piece paper, with a raw beak, producing eggs for 2 years until you're put to death. Now, this is the plight of the female chickens, you don't want to know what happens to male chickens,
I find it impossible to buy Hickamn eggs knowing this is how they are produced. Hickman's could just as easily convert their operation to uncaged but as Hickman will tell you, that's bad economics.
I'll spend the extra and avoid Hickman''s, you should do the same.
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