Hmmm now a chicken is a chicken is a chicken and all that, but to see them being taken from their already miserable 1 square foot living cube and being stuffed into plastic sacks,live, to suffer an even more miserable painful departure from their time on this planet is a sight that quite frankly angers me.
I keep a few hens free range,resuced from a breeder that used not so quite free range ethics. They were all balding due to close confinment pecking last year but have since returned to flull plumage, have learnt to run and even fly, albeit somewhat clumsily, being light sussex heavies.
Thankfully EU law is banning battery system to be out by 2012 (if memory serves correct) and request egg users here to buy Organically certified eggs and chickens as these merit the highest ethics for hens. (surpassing free range stamp).
alternatively keep a few hens yourself, they pay for themselves and you'll get a better egg for it, the hens will be happy and you'll gain satifaction a plenty getting back into balance of how we are meant to work within nature.
Thats my moan over with....
JD
I keep a few hens free range,resuced from a breeder that used not so quite free range ethics. They were all balding due to close confinment pecking last year but have since returned to flull plumage, have learnt to run and even fly, albeit somewhat clumsily, being light sussex heavies.
Thankfully EU law is banning battery system to be out by 2012 (if memory serves correct) and request egg users here to buy Organically certified eggs and chickens as these merit the highest ethics for hens. (surpassing free range stamp).
alternatively keep a few hens yourself, they pay for themselves and you'll get a better egg for it, the hens will be happy and you'll gain satifaction a plenty getting back into balance of how we are meant to work within nature.
Thats my moan over with....
JD