Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. Currently, approximately 50 million laying hens are confined at only 48 square inches per bird.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. Calling an inhumane practice "humane" does not make that practice humane.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. Layer hens spend their entire lives permanently confined in battery cages with 6-9 other hens and have only half a square foot of living space per bird. These birds are some of the most abused animals in agriculture.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

The rooster watches over the flock protectively and often participates in a hen’s egg-laying ritual, an extremely important and private part of her life. Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups.

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