Lewis Bollard

And so what they do is they give the breeding birds about 30% of the feed that the birds would eat on their own.

So they're like starving them 70%.

Because that is the only way to stop these birds from completely collapsing under the genetics that they've inflicted on them.

Yeah, I mean, I've visited factory farms, and I will say it is every bit as bad as it looks on the videos you can find online.

It is every bit.

I mean, the addition you see is, well, first you hear the noise, the distress yelps from these animals.

It smells awful.

But the other thing I noticed, I visited one egg factory farm, and it's impossible for farmers to provide individual care to each of these birds.

This was a relatively well-run farm.

And yet I still found a whole lot of hens stuck in the wire.

And those hens are just going to slowly starve.

And indeed, many had.

There were a lot of dead birds in with the live birds and other cages.

And that's just because of the scale.

It's like one farmer is trying to look after 200,000 hens.

The only thing they can actually do is check the feed lines and check the water lines and remove some of the dead birds.

Yeah.

And in fact, that is the work of a factory farmer is largely removing dead animals.

And so it is just this dystopian thing where like the industry presents this picture of like, oh, we have like individual care for our animals.

And it's like the scale at which you were doing it has totally prohibited having any kind of individual care.