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Pandemic potential

02/02/2021  |   Health articles

Factory farms are a breeding ground for disease and may be the source of the next pandemic. It’s time to end factory farming before it ends us!

Broiler chickens

25/08/2020  |  

The egg-laying hen is possibly the most abused animal on earth. Born in a hatchery without ever knowing her mother, she is forced to live most of her life indoors in a crowded shed laying 20 to 50 times the number of eggs she would naturally.

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Egg-laying hens

22/07/2020  |  

The egg-laying hen is possibly the most abused animal on earth. Born in a hatchery without ever knowing her mother, she is forced to live most of her life indoors in a crowded shed laying 20 to 50 times the number of eggs she would naturally.

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Face off: Eggs

01/09/2016  |   Campaigns

Join Juliet in seeing what happens on British factory farms in the egg industry as she comes face to face with the victims.

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Bird Brain: How chickens think & feel

22/05/2015  |   Campaigns

Few people think about chickens as intelligent or emotional, however scientists (and people who live with hens) have learned that these birds can be cunning and wily, and can communicate in sophisticated ways that are on a par with some primates.

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Life is Cheep

13/11/2014  |   Campaigns

Every day in the UK 2.5 million chickens are cruelly slaughtered for meat – that’s 30 deaths every second – each one an individual, each one a life lost.

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