Sentences with phrase «forced molting»

prohibit forced molting through starvation — an inhumane practice which is inflicted on tens of millions of hens each year and which involves withholding all food from birds for up to two weeks in order to shock their bodies into another laying cycle;

The Food Alliance Certified program prohibits forced molting through starvation but allows beak cutting.

The average chicken in the wild will yield 100 eggs annually, a factory farm has not only been selectively bred to produce up to 250 eggs a year but is routinely shocked into «force molting» a process where the chickens are starved for weeks on end to onset another laying cycle.