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aabram
08-21-2006, 09:31 AM
Time to start one of my own, I think. Legislation in the European Union for banning Battery and Enriched Cages is not to come into force until 2012. However, the Battery Egg Farmers want to put this legislation back for another 5 years. Chickens are given the amount of space smaller than an A4 sheet of paper, and cannot do what normal chickens do. It would be lovely if the CIWF could get a million names on their petition for the EU within the next 3 months, as I'm sure you will all agree. Further details to follow, but more information can be found on www.ciwf.org, where ordinary folk can sign the Petitions, one for broiler chickens, and one for battery produced eggs. This is something I feel very strongly about. Thanks lol
ponytail
08-21-2006, 11:49 AM
I agree with you, but I feel a little hypocritical saying so (types between lusty bites off drumstick)...
DaveM
08-21-2006, 12:07 PM
If you happen to live near anything resembling a rural area, see if you can find a farmer who raises free-range chickens and sells eggs (and possibly chickens as well). Voting with your wallet seems to be the most powerful thing anyone can do in this country.
aabram
08-22-2006, 04:31 AM
Free range, certainly, but better still there are vegan equivilents. And I will only buy free range or farm produced eggs for the egg eaters in my family. Personally, if I MUST have eggs at all this is the way to go, and battery produced is totally OBSCENE and completely unnecessary. As CIWF is doing something about this, wouldn't it be common courtesy to at least add your names to the petition. Thanks
david uk
08-22-2006, 04:33 AM
Battery farming is pure barbarism in my opinion.
Fortunately organic and free range eggs are easily available in the UK :)
Mmm ... organic chickens.
Not as nice as guitar-ic ones, but just as tasty. :p
Organically-raised chickens taste better than factory-raised ones by eons!
aabram
08-22-2006, 08:48 AM
So actually, we're all in agreement here. Now just to go that extra mile and sign that petition, for ALL battery-caged chickens everywhere.
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The Generic Leaflet states for Broiler Chickens
Broiler chickens live their short lives crammed into windowless sheds with thousands of other birds. 6 billion are reared for meat in Europe every year
They have been bred to grow unnaturally fast, causing millions of birds to suffer painful lameness or die from heart or lung failure. At 41 days, they are slaughtered for the supermarket shelves.
The crowded conditions often encourage the spread of disease. Antibiotics are often used to control infections, leading to the development of antibiotic resistance with potentially devastating consequences for human health.
And for egg layers
Egg-laying hens spend their entire lives crammed into battery cages with several others. Hens have less floor space than an A4 piece of paper.
They can't stretch their wings and they will never be allowed to fly or follow their strong instincts to find a nest to lay their eggs in.
They lead lives of suffering as egg laying machines.
After around a year of laying, their bones will be so weakended by the lack of exercise and the demands of constant egg production that they may, like many others, suffer broken bones when taken to slaughter
Agnes
08-22-2006, 08:55 AM
Barbaric in my opinion too, David. I only buy free range eggs, straight from a farmer. :) And as far as I'm concerned; let the chickens roam without fear ;) I'll stick to tofu.
ponytail
08-22-2006, 11:39 AM
OK, I signed the petition.
DaveM
08-22-2006, 12:04 PM
Signed here, too.
Factory farming, to my mind, has had terrible consequences not only for animals but for farmers. The family farm that once provided support and employment to the majority of Americans is now becoming a thing of the past, replaced by large-scale factory farms where animal products are mass-produced under utterly artificial and unhealthy conditions. We end up with meat filled with antibiotics and hormones, among other things, and the consequences are beginning to emerge in the form of "superbacteria", etc.
So I guess consumers are victims in this scheme as well.
aabram
08-23-2006, 05:52 AM
Just to say thanks fo all those who have signed the petitions. Evidently I didn't walk from Charlotte Square to Fraser's Corner - dressed as a chicken - for NOTHING on Saturday after all then (that yellow fluff getting in my mouth WASN'T nice) and the photos will be on the Website soon I hope. and the yellow chicken in Edinburgh IS me!!!!! Took the suit off after they got the photos as it was rather hot) after that and wrestled with a neon pink Afro wig instead... not easy when you're going around wrestling with petitions and handing out leaflets and I dropped these several times!! Still it was fun though, and I WOULD do it again. It did alot to help save chickens and helped me not be so bored with not having JI in this country for much of the year...as I said on another thread, I need another JI Concert NOW!!!!!
And now we need lots MORE people to sign the Petition, so please, folks, keep up the good work, and for the sake of the chickens, don't give up. I won't.
aabram
08-29-2006, 09:21 AM
The photos are here :D
sorry to ask a stupid question, but what exactly does battery farmed mean?
come to think of it, maybe I don't want to know?
aabram
08-30-2006, 08:36 AM
sorry to ask a stupid question, but what exactly does battery farmed mean?
come to think of it, maybe I don't want to know?
Farmed in battery cages, and it's HORRIBLE. www.ciwf.org should tell you what you need to know about broiler chickens and eggs laid by caged hens on the Chickens Out page ...lol :D
aabram
09-16-2006, 11:02 AM
Time to start one of my own, I think. Legislation in the European Union for banning Battery and Enriched Cages is not to come into force until 2012. However, the Battery Egg Farmers want to put this legislation back for another 5 years. Chickens are given the amount of space smaller than an A4 sheet of paper, and cannot do what normal chickens do. It would be lovely if the CIWF could get a million names on their petition for the EU within the next 3 months, as I'm sure you will all agree. Further details to follow, but more information can be found on www.ciwf.org, where ordinary folk can sign the Petitions, one for broiler chickens, and one for battery produced eggs. This is something I feel very strongly about. Thanks lol
Remember this????? The petitions still need signing... :D
aabram
07-11-2007, 11:16 AM
http://www.advocatesforanimals.org/
Latest photos taken on Monday. Guess who was Hetty the chicken, and please....no jokes about crossing the road, I managed it in full regalia :D
RedjackRyan
07-11-2007, 11:28 AM
No road jokes, but maybe you can finally answer the what came first, the chicken or the egg question!
Darlene
07-12-2007, 12:48 AM
I don't know but that chicken is one hefty bird! Who would dare let themselves be used in such a manner. A chicken head yet! :p
Peace, Darlene
aabram
07-12-2007, 08:12 AM
No road jokes, but maybe you can finally answer the what came first, the chicken or the egg question!
Ben, if I could answer that, I wouldn't be sitting here worrying about how I was going to get to next year's picnic. That costume is about 20 years old now :p Oh and don't put all your eggs in one basket, either. You never know which one is likely to be the bouncy ball :D
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