There is a picture
of this young handsome entrepreneur in this HSUS article, which is titled "Best Laid Plans". He looks
more like a movie-star idol than
businessman. But this man is much more than either. He is driven by compassion to find a product
that does not depend on eggs laid
on factory farms by hens crammed in battery
ages where they can't even spread their wings.
Even incarcerated criminals
and murderers are allowed to exercise, and yet these poor hapless chickens are given no consideration
at all as to their needs by
virtue of an exploitive factory system that we endorse every time we buy their "cheap"
eggs.
The food industry
traditionally uses processed eggs in either liquid, frozen, or powdered form to make cookies and mayonnaise. One-third of factory-farm eggs goes for this
purpose. Tetrick hopes to
take over as much of this processed-egg market he can because he says his product is not only more
humane, but is even 20 percent
less expensive. It is also better for the environment and healthier for us because it has no
cholesterol and has none of the
food-safety risks of eggs from factory farms.
This year Beyond
Eggs will be used by two major food companies. This product will also be available to
consumers through Hampton Creek's
website. I plan to ask The Bin--my neighborhood health store--about carrying this product as
well.
HSUS' article is
worth reading and I only have touched some salient points. But I would like to share what this young man
said to HSUS' Karen E.
Lange, senior writer, about his vision for Beyond Eggs and where he hopes it will lead.
Her question to
Tetrick was, how did your concern for animals lead you to develop an alternative-egg product?
"About 1.1
trillion eggs are laid every single year globally," he responded. "Most come from places that we wouldn't be too
proud of if we saw them, places
that are awfully cruel, awfully unsustainable, and pretty bad for our health. And I just thought that there's
got to be a better way to take the
animal entirely out of the equation
when it comes to conventional egg production and do something that's better and less
expensive."
What a marvelous,
compassionate, and beautiful human being. What else can I say except that I hope and pray
that his vision will lead to
the improvement of the billions of chickens globally who today are terribly exploited--" living"
lives of pure hell.
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