Pamela Anderson has lashed out the Loblaw’s grocery store chain for selling eggs from hens that she claims live in inhumane conditions.

In a letter Monday morning to Loblaw Companies Ltd. Senior vice-president Geoff Wilson, Anderson wrote: “Battery caging, which is the system used for the vast majority of hens in Canada, is inherently cruel. Six to eight birds are crammed into cages, giving each less room than this sheet of paper.

“They sleep, eat, defecate and lay their eggs in the same tiny space. They never feel the sun on their backs or are able to scratch in the earth. They cannot perform any natural behaviours, such as nesting, dust-bathing, stretching or wing-flapping. They have their beaks cruelly cut off. Their feathers chaffe off from rubbing against each other and the wire walls of their cages.”

Anderson called it “egregious cruelty” and claimed it happens every day on most egg farms in Canada.

(via Canada.com)

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