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EU Bans Battery Cages

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1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.

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Birds of the Northern Forest – An homage

10,000 Birds

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Born in 1937 in Hong Kong of British missionary parents, James Fenwick Lansdowne arrived in Canada in 1940 and was educated in Victoria, British Columbia. To know birds is to value them; to value birds is to be devoted to their welfare.

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Consolidation of Egg Industry

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So are egg corporations. egg industry continues to consolidate. Some 200 companies have an average flock size of one million hens in a single location, with the top 60 companies producing 85% of all eggs. and Canada are actively opposing battery cages. and is not a major egg exporter.