Winner of the Ninja Air fryer
New Hampshire Animal Rights League is pleased to share the news of our successful outreach efforts at the Market Days Festival in downtown Concord, NH.
During this three-day event (June 23- 25), we spread the word about the work we do for animals and answered the question: What’s Wrong with Eating Eggs?
Visitors to our booth learned that there is a great deal of suffering and death involved in the production of eggs. Whether raising caged or free-range chickens, it is standard practice in the egg industry to:
- Obtain hens from hatcheries that kill all male chicks at birth. (All American hatcheries kill male chicks.)
- Cut or burn off hens’ sensitive beaks to minimize how much they can damage themselves and others.
- Crowd “free-range” hens so densely most never find their way outside.
- Send hens to slaughter when their egg production decreases and the shells thin, around age 7-12 months.
Eye-Opening Video
We enticed approximately 200 people to watch the following 1-minute video from Farm Sanctuary founder Gene Baur answering the question, “What’s Wrong with Eggs?”
Those who watched the video received a free can of vegan cold brew coffee from RISE Brewing Co. along with some conversation about what they had seen.
“Male” Chick Toys
We gave out “male” chick toys to draw people in so we could tell them what happens to the male chicks at the hatcheries that supply hens to egg farms as well as backyard chicken keepers.
On the tag, we wrote, “I lived only hours, because I was male — I had no worth, since I would never lay eggs.”
We included a QR code (with warning label) that opens a video of chicks being dumped into a macerator.
Goodie Bags
We handed out close to 200 “goodie” bags containing vegan literature (sampling below), vegan protein cookies from Munk Pack, and meatless jerky from Primal Spirit Foods.
Brochure
We showed visitors some of our favorite egg substitutes and handed out a brochure with more information.
The future is vegan
While much of the food at the festival was not vegan, encouragingly many vendors did offer a vegan option. Deadproof Pizza jokingly called theirs the “Obligatory Vegan Item.”
Free advertising space
On the backside of our tent, we displayed a heartbreaking illustration of speciesism drawn by friend of NHARL Holley Ackerson.
Thank you
Thank you to all our supporters and to everyone who stopped by to learn what’s wrong with eating eggs.
We hope to see you again next year!