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- Ban Battery Cages - A hen rescue campaign in the Minneapolis area.
www.banbatterycages.org
- Battery Hens Campaign - 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.
worldanimal.net/hen-index.html
- BBC - Shoppers Duped in Egg Con - UK consumers are unwittingly buying hundreds of thousands of battery produced eggs, believing they have come from free-range hens, a farmer has claimed. BBC News, UK.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_49000/49433.stm
- BBC - The EU Ban of Battery Hen Cages - The European Union voted to ban battery hen cages across Europe, starting in 2009. BBC News, UK.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_264000/264607.stm
- Buckeye Egg Farm Disaster - About the rescue of over 3000 battery hens from Ohio and how you can help.
farmsanctuary.org/campaign/c_buckeyehens.htm
- Cape Cleveland Free Range Eggs - An Australian example for cruelty-free egg farming.
freggs.homestead.com
- Chicken Feed - Extensive international resource guide to natural chicken feeding, including a mailing forum. Site motto: Health Before Profit.
lionsgrip.com/chickens.html
- Chicken Rescue - English rescue centre for battery hens. You can adopt an ex-battery hen, give her a name, and receive an e-mail 4 times a year with pictures of your hen so you can see how she is recovering and adapting to her new environment.
www.chickenrescue.org.uk
- Chickens Are Smarter Than You Might Have Thought - Article by Deborah Blum from the Nando Times Health and Science Archive. Sacramento, CA.
soma.npa.uiuc.edu/~mmaciver/chicken_smart.html
- Chickens to Become Drug Factories - A new way to exploit chickens. OWC article by Dr. Joseph Mercola, Illinois, USA.
mercola.com/2000/dec/24/modified_chickens.htm
- COK: ISECruelty.com - Information, photos and videos about the treatment of hens at ISE-America, an egg supplier with facilities in multiple states. From Compassion Over Killing.
www.isecruelty.com
- CWF: Broiler Campaign - Information about labeling for stocking densities, the suffering of meat chickens and the health hazards for the consumers. From Compassion in World Farming. UK.
www.ciwf.co.uk/Camp/Main/Broiler/broiler_campaign.htm
- Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary - Sanctuary plus activist organization working to eliminate chicken and livestock farming. Maryland, USA.
www.bravebirds.org
- European Union Laying Hens Legislation - 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.
europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/aw/aw_farm_layinghens_en.html
- Farm Animal Welfare Network - Animal Rights site that focuses on all types of poultry. UK.
greenfield.fortunecity.com/garden/156
- Fowl, Not Foul - General information about our feathered friends, adventures of an English chicken flock from 1997 to present, and a comparision between the life situation of battery hens and pet hens.
members.madasafish.com/~fabket/fowlnotfoul
- Frank & Dannie's Sad, Mad Chukkie Site - 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.
www.airflow.net/chukkies
- FS: Poultry.org - 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.
www.poultry.org
- Hug a Chicken - Chicken pics and stories, information on how to keep backyard chickens, criticism of commercial egg farming, and a report about the rescue of 1000 battery hens in Everett, Washington.
home.earthlink.net/~mcushing/hugachicken
- Independent - Battery-hen eggs to be labelled - Robert Mendick. Supermarkets failing to carry the new stamp "eggs from caged hens" will face prosecution under a new European regulation due to be ratified this week.
news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=77263
- MFA: EggCruelty.Com - 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.
eggcruelty.com
- PETA: Commando Chicks - Campaign to inform consumers about the factory farming of meatbirds.
www.commandochicks.com
- PETA: The Grief Behind Foie Gras - Why the production of Foie Gras is cruel and how you can fight it.
www.peta-online.org/mc/facts/fsveg9.html
- PETA: Turkey Farm Cruelty - An undercover investigation in Minnesota plus a campaign for justice. Also information about vegetarian products to substitute turkey meat.
peta.org/feat/nc/index.html
- RSPCA: Broiler Chicken Suffering - 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.
chickens.rspca.org.uk
- The Other Side of the Chicken - Appreciation of chickens and their rights. Information about the lives of farm chickens, chicken art, a chicken care sheet and chicken welfare links.
www.angelfire.com/fl5/otherside/chicken.html
- Where Have All the Chickens Gone? - How factory farming causes dangerous genetic uniformity. Encompass Magazine article by Frank E. Robinson from the University of Alberta.
encompass.org/1-1/chickens.htm
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