Sentences with phrase «battery hens as»

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.

Not exact matches

This consideration renders the battery cage system for hens as immoral.

As part of its new animal welfare policy, the SUBWAY ® chain will ensure that, to start, 4 percent of the eggs used for its breakfast menu nationwide do not come from hens crammed into battery cages.

No - Eminent scientific opinion has concluded that any purported «advantages» of the cage system over alternatives are outweighed by the severe negative impacts of battery cages: The European Scientific Veterinary Committee concluded in 1996 that «It is clear that because of its small size and its barrenness, the battery cage as used at present has inherent severe disadvantages for the welfare of hens».

However, following reports that 13 Member States were unlikely to be compliant with the EU directive by 1 January 2012, meaning an estimated 50 million hens would still be housed in battery cages, Defra announced that many retailers and major food suppliers were putting in place «stringent traceability tests» to guarantee they will not supply eggs produced from illegal conventional cages or use them as ingredients in their own brand products.

While that's ambiguous in the brief mention here, it's clear in his talk that he means this only as the cost for sparing a hen the additional suffering that comes with battery cage production systems, and that the animals affected will still suffer in other ways and be killed earlier than their natural lifespan.

July 29 — 1 rooster, misidentified as a hen after being attacked by a dog July 27 — 1 rooster, dumped in neighborhood and rescued July 15 — 1 duck, 1 rooster abandoned at shelter July 3 — 2,000 hens from a battery cage farm June 28 — 1 rooster, dropped off at shelter after being saved from a ritual slaughter June 27 — 1 goat saved from slaughter June 14 — 1 rooster, found abandoned at a park May 13 — 1 goat from a local shelter April 19 — 4 king pigeons from a shelter April 12 — 1,000 hens from a pasture - based egg farm March 31 — 8 hens from a private home March 18: 2 hens from a private home March 9 — 14 hens from a private home March 7 — 1 naked neck hen, eventually transferred to Grass Valley permanent sancuary March 7 — 1 potbellied pig from a shelter, dropped off because guardian could no longer care for

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.