Posted July 24, 2012 by Rachelle Owen
Could you imagine living your life in a space so small that you could never spread your arms, lie down to sleep comfortably, or even turn around without knocking into someone? Every day is a living nightmare for birds in the egg industry—who endure this and worse.
Forced to live their entire lives packed into battery cages full of the living and the dead, most egg-laying hens never feel the sunlight until they’re thrown onto the back of transport trucks headed for slaughter.
To give people visiting PETA’s Los Angeles and Norfolk offices a new perspective on this issue, we’ve designed our elevators to look and feel like battery cages, giving people a unique view of who is on their plate. Check it out:
What do you think?
peta2 Street Team Coordinator + lover of vegan food, cats, animal rights, Dawson's Creek, and Harry Potter.
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319 days ago
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I love that idea!
321 days ago
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i feel like that would disturb small children… ahhaha but that is a good idea to put the chicken’s lives into perspective
323 days ago
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That’s a pretty cool way to get the message out, depressing, but cool and life changing! Peta2 should start doing that in other elevators. Maybe then people will start taking the stairs and get their exercise.
325 days ago
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elevators make me claustrophobic
328 days ago
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That’s a really neat idea, actually…
Though, I’d avoid that elevator like the plague…
HOORAY FOR TAKING THE STAIRS.
<3
329 days ago
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My dog likes to try to eat the smoke…
329 days ago
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peta2 is a life changing site
329 days ago
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i will never drink nestea so cruel. they mouse are so cute
330 days ago
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Haha. More then happy to
330 days ago
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I’ve been a vegetarian for about 15 weeks and I’m never ever eating meat again! this happened after me and my friend courtney watched “earthlings” and were crying all through it, i feel i need to become vegan soon so i know I’m making a significant diffrence. <3 love you guys and everything you stand for !
330 days ago
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This is so damn cruel. can’t their owners see THIS IS NOT OKAY.
Makes me sick.
330 days ago
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as soon as i found out about this o wanted to cry :/ i don’t want to let others no to make them sad but to make them aware!
330 days ago
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I think I’d avoid the elevator DX too depressing. but a clever idea, to get the message out.
330 days ago
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That’s so cool. I love that and whomever came up with the idea!<3 [:
330 days ago
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I work at a grocery store so what I do is place these flyers in the customers bag as I bag their groceries
323 days ago
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I’m about to start work at the local grocery store and that is a great idea!
330 days ago
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<3 it!