A recent article written by Sean Armstrong, the husband of the co-owner of Wild Chick Farm provides a revealing account of what's really behind "organic" egg labels. Although organic egg production is definitely a step up from conventional egg production, there is a huge disparity between what misleading labels imply and the awful conditions organic hens are subjected to. For instance, even when not raised in battery cages, tens of thousands of hens are still crammed into large warehouses where they cannot practice their most basic natural animal behavior. Hens go crazy and undergo extremely painful debeaking. Up to half of the chickens' beaks are cut off with hot knives to keep them from eating each other. Additionally, labels such as "natural," "hormone free," "free range," and "cage free," are far from what any consumer might imagine from the false images implied by phony labels and even the names of companies. Many people become vegetarian because they don't want to endorse animal cruelty but the sad reality is that eating eggs and dairy products supports an industry where animals greatly suffer and live painful and tortured short lives and cruel deaths. But most consumers are clueless about factory farming (organic and conventional)—it is what greenwashing is all about. Read the full article to find out some of the specific companies you might be buying your eggs from, their awful practices and how they cheat and lie to you.