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AMAZING! yet sad...
sorry if this sounds stupid, but what is a battery hen?
Its not stupid, a lot of people don't know what a battery cage hen is, here is some information on it. Its sad but it does happen! look up Battery cage hen pictures if you wanna get a better understanding
There are 30,000,000 chickens in this country - 85% of these are 'living' in Battery Farms.
70% of the above are kept in sheds containing 20,000 birds or more, some up to 100,000.
The minimum legal requirement of space for one bird is just under three quarters the size of an A4 sheet of paper.
Most farms have 4 or 5 birds per cage. The cages being approx. 20 inches x 20 inches (500 x 500)
Cages usually extending from one end of the shed to the other, up to six stacks high.
With artificial 'sunrise and sunset' plus fortified foods, the average annual egg yield of one hen is 338 per year.
Over 2,000,000 chickens die in their cages each year from disease caused by improper control of faeces clearing.
Chicken beaks are cut to stop them causing too much damage to each other.
They spend approximately 72 weeks in this condition before they are slaughtered for pet food, even pies for us.
By then, most are suffering from brittle bones caused by standing on the wire bottoms of their cages.
