Welfare Issues in the Egg Industry
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LIVING CONDITIONS
For 13 months, animal cruelty investigators from Teja’s Animal Refuge, Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Food Animals (CETFA) and The Canadian H.E.A.R.T. documented the lives of 22,500 egg-laying hens in one Canadian barn…
CHICKEN-CATCHING PROCESS
The investigators were invited on-site and documented the catching process. Approximately 15 young men (“chicken-catchers”) arrived early one evening while the hens were asleep. The chicken-catchers were paid per trailer, not per hour, which encouraged speed over care of the birds…
SUMMARY OF CRUELTY DOCUMENTED DURING CHICKEN-CATCHING
- Escaping hens were stomped on; many hens died as a result;
- One hen had her throat ripped out by a catcher;…
