Critter News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
None of the employees at my local store could offer any information concerning the welfare of the hens. They are debeaked because that is necessary to keep them from injuring each other." If, in fact, Trader Joe's deems debeaking as necessary, then this immediately reveals the high density of birds.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Since chickens of the strain raised for meat production aren't typically raised in cages, the label "free roaming chicken" can legally be applied to chickens that were painfully debeaked and then permanently confined in an overcrowded shed with 100,000 other chickens each of whom had 7/10 of a square foot of floor space.
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