Why do vegans not like eggs?

Vegans do not like eggs because producing them involves cruelty. Shortly after birth, the male and female chicks are separated by workers on a conveyor belt. The males are either tossed into trash bags to suffocate or ground up alive in a machine called a macerator. Video at Hy-Line hatchery in Spencer, Iowa shows healthy male chicks peeping as they are fed live into rotating blades. About 200 million male chicks are killed by the egg industry every year. The female chicks have the ends of their beaks cut off with a hot blade so that they don't hurt each other out of frustration during their intense confinement. It takes approximately 34 hours for a hen to produce an egg. To keep up with demand, 346 million hens are used by the egg industry every year. Five to 11 hens are crammed into tiny wire "battery" cages. On average, each hen's living space is about the size of an ipad. The cages are often stacked on top of one another, which allows urine and feces to fall down onto birds in the lower cages. Large piles of feces below the cages are common on some egg farms. Because of the terrible living conditions, chickens often die in their cages. They are sometimes left to rot in the same space with living birds. After about two years, those who have survived are killed. At the slaughterhouse, some laying hens meet the same bloody end as that of chickens raised for their meat. They are shackled and hung upside down, they are electrocuted, their throats are cut, and they are often scalded to death. (Source, with pictures and video.) Other producers consider laying hens too cheap to spend money sending to a slaughterhouse. Undercover video documented "hens suffocating in garbage cans, twirled by their necks , kicked into manure pits to drown." In 2003, 30,000 unwanted hens were fed live into a wood chipper at Ward Egg Ranch in San Diego County, California. Many hens die in fires, like one in Michigan in 2003 that killed 250,000 hens.