Women to Cage Themselves in Solidarity With Hens Ahead of International Women’s Day 

For Immediate Release:

06 March 2024

Contact: 

Utkarsh Garg; [email protected]  

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected] 

Panaji – Just in time for International Women’s Day (8 March), women in Goa will cram themselves into cages on Thursday in solidarity with hens on egg farms. These PETA India supporters aim to remind passers-by that mother hens raised for their eggs spend their entire lives in cages so small they can’t spread a single wing. 

When: Thursday, 7 March, 12 noon sharp 

Where: Mandovi River Promenade, opposite Old GMC Building, Panaji, Goa 403001 

“All females deserve freedom and happiness, including the hens who spend every day crammed together in filthy wire cages so that humans can eat their eggs,” says PETA India Manager of Vegan Projects Dr Kiran Ahuja. “PETA India is calling on everyone to show kindness to females of all species this International Women’s Day by choosing vegan meals.” 

In the egg industry, hens’ bodies are manipulated to produce as many as 300 eggs per year – far more than the 15 per year their wild ancestors would lay in nature. Because of this, they often suffer from osteoporosis, infections, ovarian cancer, and reproductive tumours, and eggs can even become lodged inside them. If treated well, a hen has a life expectancy of about 10 years. On an egg farm, her body is typically worn out after just two years – if she survives that long in the squalid, crowded conditions. When her egg production drops, she’s considered “spent” and is thrown into a truck full of other hens bound for a slaughterhouse or a live-animal market, where her throat is cut while she’s still conscious. 

The Video footage of the plight of hens who are forced to lay eggs are available upon request.

In addition to sparing chickens and other animals immense suffering, people who go vegan dramatically reduce their carbon footprint as well as their risk of major health conditions. There’s no nutritional need for humans to eat animal-derived foods. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals, vegans are at reduced risk of ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. 

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram. 

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