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The European Union voted to ban battery hen cages across Europe, starting in 2009.
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Claims that UK consumers are unwittingly buying hundreds of thousands of battery produced eggs, believing they have come from free-range hens.
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A hen rescue campaign in the Minneapolis area.
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Educates consumers about the welfare problems of egg production in battery cages and tries to achieve an international ban on battery cage systems. Info is from the Compassion in World Farming organization.
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Information about labeling for stocking densities, the suffering of meat chickens and the health hazards for the consumers. From Compassion in World Farming. UK.
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Extensive international resource guide to natural chicken feeding, including a mailing forum. Site motto: Health Before Profit.
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Salon Newsreal article about Karen Davis, the founder of UPC. By David Wallis, New York.
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Detailed information about chickens and other farmed animals, and resources concerning the links between animal exploitation and other social problems.
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Provides an in-depth report on animal suffering in the egg industry, as well as photos, videos, and a guide to what egg labels mean.
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This page from the official European Union website will always show the latest information on their regulations concerning laying hens and the ban on battery egg farming.
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Contains pictures, videos, and information about the animal suffering, human health hazards, worker exploitation, and environmental destruction caused by the poultry industry. From the Farm Sanctuary organization.
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Animal Rights site that focuses on all types of poultry. UK.
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Vegetarian couple who raise laying hens in their Essex garden. Information about conditions of commercial battery and free-range hens, the family's dogs, and links to animal welfare groups.
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Ccoalition dedicated to exposing the cruelty of the foie gras industry. Includes photo gallery, video clips and news. Based in Washington, DC, USA.
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Information, photos and videos about the treatment of hens at ISE-America, an egg supplier with facilities in multiple states. From Compassion Over Killing.
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Investigation and rescue at Ohio's two largest egg factory farms. Background information, articles, photo and video gallery, suggestions for activism, and links to related sites. From Mercy for Animals, a vegan organization.
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Describes the campaign by the Humane Society of the United States to free egg-laying hens from the confines of battery cages.
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Educational and activist site working against force feeding of birds, a technique used in commercial foie gras production. Includes articles, resources, campaign materials, and links.
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Campaign to inform consumers about the factory farming of meatbirds.
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Presents the view that there is cruelty and abuse of chickens by KFC's suppliers and supports a vegan lifestyle.
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An undercover investigation in Minnesota plus a campaign for justice. Also information about vegetarian products to substitute turkey meat.
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Reports and educates about what happens to the birds who provide the UK with the nation's most popular meat. Online petition, press ad, commercial, and resources for activism.
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A weblog from a former worker in a Tyson chicken processing plant, where he documents in bloody detail how chickens are killed, and what he finally did about it.
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Dedicated to banning the force feeding of ducks and geese to produce pate de foie gras.
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Activist group that campaigns against cruelty to chickens and other domestic fowl. Site features action alerts, resource articles, merchandise and membership. Virginia, US.
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A half hour documentary about the conditions inside Wegmans Egg Farm located in Wolcott, NY, USA. Free download is allowed.
