Sentences with phrase «battery hens»

If they come from battery hens then you'd get more nutritional value from cardboard.

You don't have to be a zealous animal rights activist to cringe every time you see images of battery hens, and imagine what a life — even with the very basic mental life of a chicken — would be like in a tiny, crowded cage.

Australia should ban battery hens as in countries like Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and Austria.

Industrial caged egg farmers were accused of engaging in «systemic collusion» with the DPI to thwart moves to outlaw battery hens.

Packed in like battery hens, no legroom to speak of.

Animals Australia says laws now allow battery hens to be packed into cages where they can not stretch their wings; mother pigs can be caged barely able to move for months on end; and chickens raised for meat have been bred to grow at three times their natural rate, causing health problems.

Battery hens lay half of the eggs sold by Woolworths and will be phased out by 2018, affecting 12 caged egg suppliers that will have to shift to a sustainable cage - free model.

But on Monday we are taking over tv screens on behalf of every voiceless battery hen; every distressed mother pig; and on behalf of each and every factory farmed animal who deserves a life worth living.

It's important to note also that the severe living conditions imposed upon battery hens, coupled with their unnatural egg production inflicts a heavy toll upon them — some moreso than others — with few ever expected to live as long as their non factory farmed cousins.

Ongoing medical care Rescued battery hens should be treated for worms, parasites and coccidiosis.

These dogs are tightly packed in wire cages similar to how battery hens are housed on factory farms.

That effort appears to be successful, and John Steinman kicks off the season with an in - depth look at how eggs are produced - from the unquestionably cruel battery hen system to more humane, yet still intensive organic and free range options, to the truly pasture raised and free to roam.

Sainsbury's is set to become the first of the four largest supermarkets in the UK to stop selling eggs from battery hens.

If the UK reduces the standards on the treatment of battery hens, for instance, the Scottish government can not decide to stick to the previous EU level.

As a beekeeper with three hives I can't understand where this thing about the bees» pain is coming from — they are not kept like dairy cows or battery hens as they determine themselves how many bees live in any one hive.

Instead, the integrity of the drafting process is being questioned after egg industry representatives were recently accused of engaging in «systemic collusion» with the NSW Government to thwart moves to outlaw battery hens.

They are fed organic food and live in a similar environment to their ancestors, whereas conventionally grown animals can be raised in tiny indoor cages, like battery hens, for example, or pigs in sow stalls or gestation crates, with little or no room to move and no exposure to natural light.

Battery hens and broiler chickens are the terms used to describe poultry raised in «industrial» highly intensive farming environments, for egg production and meat production, respectively.

Battery hens are considered the most poorly treated animals in the industrialized agriculture industry.

Elaine McKewon is a PhD student at UTS which is an inner city «university» that used to be Sydney Technical College, its just down the road from the ABC headquarters («UK BBC and makes the US BPL look very neutral) and a battery hen institution for all manner of leftards and CAGW alarmists.

Even when free range and organic egg production is significantly better than the battery hen counterpart, it's a fair bet that most supermarket eggs were produced in conditions that bare little resemblance to the bucolic scenes of pastures and red barns that tend to adorn their boxes.

Sainsbury's is set to become the first of the four largest supermarkets to stop selling eggs from battery hens.