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So let me get this straight. You want me to live in a miserable,cramped, unnatural environment,
and never see the light of day...
Where do I sign up....
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So let me get this straight. You want me to live in a miserable,cramped, unnatural environment,
and never see the light of day...
Where do I sign up....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2194288/Food-shortages-turn-world-vegetarian-2050-warn-leading-scientists.html
Currently there are around 320-330 million egg laying hens in the European Union (EU - 27) in commercial flocks. These hens are kept in a variety of systems ranging from free range, barn and organic, to caged systems such as enriched and barren battery.
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In 1999 the EU agreed a Directive on Laying Hens (1999/74/EC) that resulted in the banning of the most inhumane of these systems, the barren battery cage. The EU allowed producers a 12 year phase-out period, bringing the ban into effect on 1 January 2012
The Big Move Campaign
The ban on the barren battery cage is a tremendous victory for animal welfare. ThroughThe Big Move campaign, Compassion in World Farming has led the way in helping ensure the ban was successfully defended, in the face of strong opposition from producers and a number of EU member states.
Directly impacting the lives of hundreds of millions of hens, The Big Move campaign continues to take action on behalf of the hens still in these now illegal cages, targeting EU nations containing non-compliant producers.
Hen Welfare
In a barren battery cage, a hen is unable to carry out many of her most basic natural behaviours. This causes her extreme physical and psychological stress.
In Europe, a barren battery cage typically holds four or five hens with a floor space allowance per bird of less than an A4 sheet of paper. The height of the cage is only just enough to allow the hens to stand upright.
The cages usually have a sloping wire mesh floor and are stacked in rows several tiers high. Each unit holds thousands of hens this way. Hens in these cages are typically kept in closed sheds that are artificially lit and ventilated.
Retailers, manufacturers and service
Our Good Egg Awards reward European food companies for going cage-free - sourcing only barn or free-range eggs, instead of eggs from caged hens. Winners so far include Sainsbury's, McDonald’s (UK), and Unilever (including Hellmann’s mayonnaise in the UK). A projected 25 million laying hens are set to benefit from our Good Egg Award winners’ policies to date.
http://www.ciwf.org.uk/what_we_do/egg_laying_hens/default.aspx
CHICKEN OUT!
To satisfy the ever increasing demand for low-cost meat, chickens are being bred to grow to slaughter weight in less than six weeks. This is half the time it would have taken to rear chickens thirty years ago.
Chicken Welfare
Every year, over 50 billion chickens are reared worldwide, mostly en masse in windowless, barren and overcrowded sheds. Since they have been bred to grow faster than nature intended, they can suffer enormously, both physically and with poor health.
Fat, lame chicken - this is intensive farming.
Millions go lame as their legs can't support their over-developed bodies. Many more will die of heart and lung problems.
As they grow in size, conditions inside the shed worsen: overcrowding means there is no space to move about; therefore, they can’t exercise. Squatting for long periods of time in their own droppings causes painful blisters on their breasts, feet and legs (hock burns). Some find it difficult to reach the feed and water points in the shed and can die of starvation. Their bodies may be left to decompose on the floor.
Human Welfare
Overcrowded chicken shed or breeding ground for disease?
Intensive farming methods have contributed to the emergence and spread of diseases such as Avian ‘Flu, with deadly consequences for humans.
Factory farmed chickens are a common cause of food poisoning by bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter.
The use of antibiotics to improve growth-rates and to prevent and control disease has resulted in the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are used in large quantities to combat diseases caused by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions – treating the symptoms, not the cause.
What are the alternatives?
Organic and free-range farming methods allow chickens to grow naturally with access to outside space, fresh air and exercise. Higher welfare indoor systems such as RSPCA Freedom Food allow more space, enriched environments and use slower growing breeds.
We are campaigning for all chickens to be reared in more humane and natural farming systems. The poultry industry must change its policy from mass producing cheap meat to producing fewer, better quality chickens who have a better quality of life.
How can we bring about change?
We can end the suffering of chickens by educating consumers to shop compassionately. At the same time, we are encouraging governments to change the legislation affecting the poultry industry and retailers to stop selling intensively-farmed chicken.
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GETTING SOWS OUT OF STALLS
Hundreds of millions of pigs around the world are kept in factory farms.
Just under 1 billion animals in the world today are pigs. Over 500 million of these pigs live in industrialised systems, known as factory farms. Being kept in such intensive conditions has severe health and welfare implications for the animals involved.
Compassion in World Farming has campaigned for many years to ensure higher welfare standards for pigs. During this time we have seen vital steps forward, including the recognition of animals as sentient beings within the EU (Lisbon Treaty, 2009), and the passage of legislation such as Council Directive 2008/120/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs.
Project Pig
Project Pig is Compassion’s campaign to build on the legislative advances made within the EU, with specific regard to enforcing the Pigs Directive across Europe. With particular emphasis on the 2013 Sow Stall Ban, Project Piglobbies DEFRA, the European Commission, European Parliament and EU Agriculture Ministers to stop some of the routine abuses of pig welfare.
We also make formal complaints to the European Commission regarding breaches of the Pigs Directive by particular EU countries. This can result in these countries being taken to the European Court.
Sows in stalls will often chew the metal bars in front of them through frustration and boredom. Find out more about sow stalls >>
Sow Stalls – In Brief
Sow stalls were banned in the UK in 1999 – after a campaign by Compassion in World Farming - and are set to be outlawed across all twenty seven EU member states from 1st January 2013, for all but the first four weeks of a sow’s pregnancy, as well as the week before she gives birth.
Sow stalls are inhumane systems that act like prisons for the sows involved, limiting the sow’s movement to the extent that she cannot even turn around. Living in a stall a sow cannot follow her natural behaviour to root, forage or explore and in this barren environment she will often resort to biting the metal bars that surround her, through frustration, boredom or hunger.
Good Pig Award
At Compassion we are not just campaigning for the enforcement of the Directive, we are also working with retailers and producers to help improve pig welfare. This year we have launched a good pig award that celebrates companies that are using or committing to using higher welfare pig systems for sows and meat pigs. More details of the award can be found on the Compassion in Food Business website.
For more extensive research please see http://www.ciwf.org.uk/what_we_do/factory_farming/default.aspx
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