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Battery hens and sow crates...

Battery hens and sow crates. What is happening?. What are the facts?. 2.4 million battery hens are raised and farmed each year. 95% of all layer hens are battery hens so only 5% are free range Free range is when the hen is allowed outside in a wide open space

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Battery hens and sow crates...

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  1. Battery hens and sow crates... What is happening?

  2. What are the facts? • 2.4 million battery hens are raised and farmed each year. • 95% of all layer hens are battery hens so only 5% are free range • Free range is when the hen is allowed outside in a wide open space • Battery hens produce over 60 million dozen eggs per year. • People consume 200 eggs on average per year.

  3. How are they farmed? • Each bird has just 450 sq cm of living space (less space than an A4 sheet of paper). • A battery hen can't peck and scratch or dust bathe. • She can't even stretch her wings. • She is denied fresh air and sunlight.

  4. What are battery hens?

  5. And this....

  6. Can we allow this?

  7. Have I answered your question? This is the average hen farm-horrible isn't it. • They are called battery hens not because they run on a battery but because that the arrangement of cages are called battery. • This is part of a new idea-intensive farming (raising a lot of products on a small space.

  8. Its cruel • The hens have their beaks cut off with a red hot blade when they are just 5 days old. • They also have their middle toes cut off to minimise foot injuries. • 50% of the chicks are KILLED because they are male (they can’t lay eggs) • During their extra short lives (about 18 months) they are bored and stressed. If you ever are bored at home think about this!

  9. What can I do? • Buy Free Range eggs • Write to the Minister of Agriculture, David Carter, to tell him to ban battery farming as battery hens have been outlawed in Switzerland since 1992 and will be phased out in Europe by 2012 • Write to the egg company • Join SAFE or the chicken rescue network • Think about having chickens at home

  10. Another form of factory farming-sow crates! • Sow crates are much like battery hens except it ispigs instead of hens being mistreated. In fact some people believe that swine flu came from pigs being dirty and not well looked after! • Oh thanks pig farmers you might of caused The Black Plague 2! • Well anyway take a look at these photos and decide for yourselves. Should they be like this?

  11. So how do you feel about this?

  12. This is their “home sweet home”

  13. Just chill out-oh I can’t move my feet!

  14. Here are some sow crate facts • The sow crate is a small metal-barred crate that is widely used on factory farms. The stall is so narrow the pregnant sow cannot turn around, let alone exercise. All she can do is stand up or lie down. • The uncomfortable concrete floor and lack of exercise can cause her to develop foot and leg problems and lameness. • Nearly a third of New Zealand pig farmers use dry sow stalls? These are mostly large-scale producers. • They are dirty as well – 10,000 pigs produce as much sewage as a city of 20,000. • • Sow stalls are banned in the United Kingdom and Sweden and will be soon phased out in Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Denmark.

  15. But THIS is even more shocking….. • Some pig farmers claim that they are not breaking any of the laws by farming the pigs that way! And they may be right. • Pig farming is controlled the 1999 Animal Welfare Act. It has a animal welfare code for pigs. This allows for pigs to be treated cruelly. The code needs to be changed! • You could write to the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and tell them that their code stinks.

  16. Factory Farming-the issues • Why are people farming like this?Because they can produce food cheaper this way and make MORE money! • Is that a good enough reason? No. • Farmers will tell that we need to use these methods to feed the worlds growing population. Is that the only solution ? • No – has anyone heard of population control • What about eating less meat. Become a vegetarin-take pok off your fork!

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