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Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
Current Campaigns Factory Egg Production Latest News On Egg Production. Access Farm Sanctuary Research Report, The Welfare of Hens in Battery Cages Laying Hens There are approximately 300 million egg laying hens in the ... 'egg bound' and die when their bodies are too weak to pass another egg. Osteoporosis is another common ailment afflicting egg laying hens, whose bodies lose more calcium to form egg ...
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Friends of Animals | Vegetarianism: For the Animals
Laying hens are cramped into stacked cages about the size of a record album, with three to nine birds fighting for space. A shed of laying hens ... them to start laying again. A third of the birds will not survive a forced molt. Male chicks born to egg laying hens are of ... the same as those born to caged hens. Ultimately the hens are killed for meat, once past their egg-laying prime. These animals don't ...
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Compassion Over Killing > COK Petitions FDA to Mandate Full Disclosure on Egg Cartons
Read below to find out how you can take action to help egg-laying hens. Eggs-Aggerated Claims Animal welfare claims on egg cartons are currently unregulated in the United States, enabling egg producers to mislead consumers with exaggerated ...
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Compassion Over Killing > Egg Industry Investigations
Over Killing > Egg Industry Investigations Wednesday Aug 13th Other COK Sites TryVeg.com VegRecipes.org EggIndustry.com ChickenIndustry.com VegAustin.com VegBaltimore.com VegDC.com VegPortland.com Egg-laying hens are the most ... induced aggression, and hens may also be starved for up to two weeks—losing up to 30 percent of their bodyweight—to jolt their bodies into a new laying cycle. COK’s ...
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The Delta News
The presence of these scars indicates egg-laying occurred during the most recent nesting season. Therefore, ovaries of non-breeding hens ... -marked, free-ranging mallard hens. I removed and examined ovaries from 48 females (with known laying histories) at 30-90 days following the completion of egg-laying. My results indicate ...
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Get Involved | Farm Sanctuary
Gemperle, and urge them to end all sales of eggs produced from battery caged hens. Support Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act (H.R. 1726) (May 2, 2008) The Farm Animal ... city, state and county governments, as well as Arizona citizens from enacting laws regarding how egg-laying hens are confined on factory farms. Only the Arizona Department of Agriculture will have authority over ...
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Saving Hope, One of the Egg Industry's Tiniest Victims | Mercy For Animals
It was a living hell, brought to life courtesy of consumers’ demand for the “incredible edible egg.” ... egg producing machine. Death would be no different. But we weren’t going to let her languish. We couldn’t. Unlike the over 275 million other egg-laying hens who endure the harsh cruelties inherent in “modern” egg agribusiness every year, she ...
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Friends of Animals | The Low-Down on Californians for Humane Farms | Winter 2007-08
The animals listed as needing husbandry modifications are calves sold as veal, egg-laying hens, and pregnant pigs. The proposal makes exceptions for fairs and exhibitions, children in 4-H ... battery cages for egg-laying birds. Campaigners love to claim a ``first'' but what does this one really mean? Egg producers kill male chicks soon after they hatch. That would continue. Hens would still ...
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New Jersey Court Rules Factory Farm Practices Not Humane
The beaks of most hens are trimmed to reduce feed costs. Part of hens' beaks are sliced off with a hot blade with no pain ... would outlaw gestation crates for breeding pigs, veal crates for calves and battery cages for egg-laying hens in the nation's largest agricultural state. "This decision will protect thousands of animals in ...
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California Egg Farm Investigation | Mercy For Animals
Birds suffering from untreated broken bones, open wounds, infections and prolapses. Workers brutally killing sick hens by ... egg farms across the country in recent years – illustrating that animal neglect and abuse are the egg industry standard, not the exception. Consumers hold enormous power in ending the exploitation of egg-laying hens ...
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