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When I visited a farm as part of a science project from school,
I was sickened to see the battery hen shed. The poor hens were kept
four or five to a cage and had no room to stretch thier wings or move
around. The conditions were so bad that my eyes watered with the
ammonia in the air from the dirty cages, they also watered with pity
for the poor creatures. The feet of the hens were grown around the
bars that they were stood on and they would have to be cut into to be
removed eventually.
I have recently received some inside information form an Ex-Jesus
army member who states "The Jesus army in Lower Heyford, North
Hamptonshire have thier own battery hen sheds and pig farm.
These are as cruel as any other. My particular job was to remove the
dead hens from the cages and burn them. We also wrung the necks of
the non-layers and sold them for meat."
General
This moved me into looking into what happens in our farms and in the
rest of the world, this is a result of my findings so far.
More on Hens
It is a standard practice to remove hen's beaks to stop them hurting
each other, this is usually done with a red hot blade, no anasthetic is used.
Hens in battery farms and most free range farms (which are not as
free range as we might think) are fed a mixture of ground meat ,
bonemeal (yes from mad cows!) and a colouring called E161g, this
colouring has been banned in humans as it caused severe damage to the
eyes. It makes the yolks lovely and yellow but imagine what it does
to the poor chickens, also think, what if it is carried in the eggs? I would LOVE someone to tell me it isn't but no one has......
Pigs
Sows are kept still with metal clamps whill they are pregnant, they can't move freely so thier legs suffer until they have thier babies, when they are free to suckle thier young. Not for long though, the babies are removed within a month and the sows made pregnant again, thier teeth are cut out at a young age so they can't hurt each other out of boredom. These poor animals have little more life than a baby machine.
Beef Cattle
In some slaughterhouses the cows are not stunned enough, and wake to find themselves hanging from a spiked hook and bleeding to death. Thier calves live inside tiny crates, chained so they cannot move, essentially like a battery hen but on it's own. It's diet is liquid and is packed full of drugs. When it is big enough it is hauled off to an abbatoir alive, as the meat stays fresher that way, once there it is killed in the manner of it's mother.
Dairy Cows
You would think that these animals have the best life wouldn't you? In reality they only live out about a quarter of thier lives as they are fed so many chemicals and hormones to make them produce more milk, and are not given the treatment they need for thier illnesses and diseases that they have no chance of living a full life. Thier udders suffer badly in the milking machines and I have heard of cases where the udders rot away with untreated disease.
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