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=__Battery__ __Chickens__= Imagine that you are in a cage smaller than an A4 piece of paper. Every thing is lit up with artificial light that is only dimmed for an hour a day. You have never seen sunlight and have never walked. The guy above your cage keeps pecking you and you are covered in excrement. The continuous pain in your severed beak is unbelievable and it is hard to eat. Despite living with so many others you are lonely and have no family. Then finally you are thrown out of your cage and with many broken bones are ripped apart in a shredder to be used as compost. This is the life cycle of a battery hen and in my opinion not what I would call a happy one. What is a battery chicken? Well it’s not some thing to charge your i-pod with. A battery chicken is a hen that is born purely for laying eggs. They are treated so cruelly that you would not believe it. For starters when a chick is born, if it is a male they are either killed by gassing or instantaneous fragmentation, which means ripping them apart. If you were lucky enough to survive, five days later you would have the tip of your beak and your middle toe cut off with a red hot blade which can cause life long pain.

Some of the problems you might face are cannibalism, liver ruptures, foot and claw problems and bone weakness. Battery hens lay 310 eggs a year but their ancient cousin, the jungle foul only laid 10-20 eggs. Their normal life span is 10-15 years which is far longer than the 18 months the battery hens live. According to research, there are 130 egg farmers in New Zealand and 2.4 million hens. 95% of them are battery.

The meat from battery chickens is usually used as compost, food flavouring and pet food. They have been so poorly treated that they are not allowed to be eaten by humans. In comparison free range chickens are a much better option. Did you know that a free range hen is allowed to walk and roosts where ever they want and they usually have a max limit of 350 hens per acre. Free range eggs are usually more expensive but I think it is worth spending a couple of extra dollars.

In England battery chicken egg sales have dropped dramatically since two famous chefs (Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fernley) made a TV program that tells the public about what is actually happening to battery hens.

In conclusion I think that battery chickens should be banned because it is cruel to keep them as they are being treated now. On the other hand I think that free range chickens are a much better alternative. I also think that there should be a rule that they should be banned for ever and every single battery chicken should be released to a free range farm. You can also make a difference by buying free range eggs next time you are at the supermarket. DO IT FOR THE CHICKS.

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