Battery hens. Caged and intensively farmed egg-laying chickens.
Yep, you can adopt one or two or three…or as many as you have room for. The Battery Hen Welfare Trust has the low-down. If you don’t live in the UK, I’m sure there must be people in your own country doing the same kind of thing. There isn’t? So you do it then. These birds deserve more from us. They’ve been abused and can do with something a little better than being wrapped in pastry, don’t you think?
~Womblin~
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on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 10:08 pm.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Naked Chickens???
Let’s hope not. Not with winter coming on.
People need to VOTE AGAINST BATTERY CAGING of hens…and of proper treatment for all farm animals with their pocketbook. They should buy at the supermarket ONLY BUYING eggs and meat produced by farms with practice sustainable organic agriculture and keep their animals on free range — chickens, duck, geese, cattle, pigs…you name it.
My five cents.
zen-
September 7th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Right.
Folk over here in the UK are always surprised to hear that one of their best-loved brands of mayonnaise, Helmanns, is made using battery hen eggs, and that the company are utterly resistant to change. While the much maligned (in my eyes) MacDonalds uses free-range eggs in all its egg-related products. Hmm.
The good news is that the practice is to be outlawed here by 2012. I can hardly wait. Factory farming of any creature is truly abhorrent.
~Womblin~
September 9th, 2007 at 4:22 am
By 2012, we’re all apt to be toast, W.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I’m an optimist though. Eternally.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
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