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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

Enactment of the bill will bring about the first federal law relating to the treatment of chickens used for food, the first federal law relating to the treatment of animals while on factory farms, and the first farmed animal protection legislation in more than 30 years.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. 9, 2008 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns , a nonprofit organization that is a sponsor of Proposition 2. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,