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Compassion Over Killing > CAMPAIGN VICTORY: Morningstar Farms To Use One Million Fewer Eggs!
Please call Kellogg ... More than 95% of eggs produced in the U.S. come from hens confined inside barren wire battery cages so restrictive, the birds can barely ... behaviors including spreading their wings, perching, or walking. Battery-caged hens are typically provided with a meager 67 square inches of ...
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Compassion Over Killing > Abolitionist: Autumn/Winter 2005, Issue 18
In February, COK investigators documented horrific—yet standard—abuses of laying hens confined in Maryland's three largest egg farms. Then, in July and August, we traveled coast ...
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Mercy For Animals | Outrage
The investigation uncovered countless sick and injured hens suffering from raging eye and sinus infections, mechanical feather damage, ... , injured, and dying hens, MFA also rescued 34 hens from certain death. All of the surviving hens have recovered miraculously at ... from the site. Media attention on the plight of hens confined to battery cages has continued even after the release ...
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Mercy For Animals | Outrage
United States, hens at Buckeye and Daylay Egg Farms are imprisoned in crowded battery cages (long rows of wire cages holding an average of eight birds per unit). Hens confined ... confined 140,000 to 250,000 birds. The cages measure only 20 inches wide, 17 to 20 inches deep, and 17 inches tall. Again, an average of seven to eight hens ...
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Friends of Animals | The Low-Down on Californians for Humane Farms | Winter 2007-08
California initiative involves measuring the area in which animals are confined; and similarly, it appeals to conservative values and an ... needing husbandry modifications are calves sold as veal, egg-laying hens, and pregnant pigs. The proposal makes exceptions for fairs and ... cage-free eggs. It's an easier sell: ``Eggs from hens confined in furnished cages,'' states the HSUS report, ``do not enjoy ...
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Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
Gemperle Farms. The 2005 footage, supplied by Farm Sanctuary, revealed horrific conditions in which hens were packed into dilapidated wire cages, suffering and dying amid filth. Then, in early ... still supports tremendous animal cruelty by continuing to sell eggs from hens confined in battery cages at other factory farms. Hens confined to a life in a battery cage experience tremendous suffering, ...
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Sheet Mulching for the Home Garden
Hens make a mess of ...
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Mad Cow Disease Revisited
Also, in these highly confined cages hens would often die and the owners would just pull a dead ...
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The vast majority of animals used for food production are raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), commonly called "factory farms". Overcrowding is one of the most common ... long rows, are crowded into large sheds. To reduce pecking, which results from overcrowding, laying hens have their beaks cut off. Debeaking is a painful procedure that involves cutting through ...
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Get Involved | Farm Sanctuary
Support Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act (H.R. 1726) (May 2, ... well as Arizona citizens from enacting laws regarding how egg-laying hens are confined on factory farms. Only the Arizona Department of Agriculture ... . Sadly, the suffering endured by foie gras ducks-who are confined inside tiny pens or cages and force-fed until their ...
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