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Very year in the UK alone, more than 800 million chickens are slaughtered for food. "Broiler" chickens are raised and killed for their flesh. Many broiler chickens spend much of their lives in so much pain that they are unable to move.
Very year in the UK alone, more than 800 million chickens are slaughtered for food. "Broiler" chickens are raised and killed for their flesh. Many broiler chickens spend much of their lives in so much pain that they are unable to move.
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Very year in the UK alone, more than 800 million chickens are slaughtered for food. "Broiler" chickens are raised and killed for their flesh. Many broiler chickens spend much of their lives in so much pain that they are unable to move.
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From Shell to Hell The short, miserable lives of chickens. very year in the UK alone, more
E than 800 million chickens are
slaughtered for food. Shy and sensitive animals, almost all of them spend their unnaturally short, miserable lives crammed together in windowless sheds on factory farms, each one with less space than an A4 sheet of paper. WHAT’S A BROILER CHICKEN? Tens of “Broiler” chickens are raised and killed for their flesh.
thousands of They are bred to grow so large so fast that often
their legs cannot withstand their weight. Tens of them are thousands of them are forced to live in a dark shed in forced to live their own excrement, among corpses of other birds in a dark shed who died of heart attacks, suffocation, starvation or in their own stress. Their natural lifespan of 15 to 20 years is cut excrement, short when their throats are slit after six or seven among corpses weeks. Many broiler chickens spend much of their of other birds... lives in so much pain that they are unable to move. 02435 chicken leaflet08/02 10/09/03 1:53 pm Page 2
From Shell to Hell...
HOW DOES EGG PRODUCTION WORK? Only female chicks are useful to the egg industry, so males are tossed live into a grinding machine, killed with carbon monoxide, or thrown live into the rubbish to suffocate. Female chicks have their beaks seared off with a red-hot iron, then they’re shoved into a tiny cage with three to six others in windowless Healthy hens as sheds filled with thousands of stacked cages.They have they should be ... so little space that they can’t even stretch out a wing. Eighteen months and about 400 eggs later, the hens are packed into trucks and sent to slaughter. Their battered flesh is made into dog food, soup and other chicken products.
CHICKEN IS NOT A HEALTH FOOD
Chicken contains as much artery-clogging cholesterol ...but this is how as beef (100 mg in just four ounces), and a single egg they become ... has twice as much cholesterol as a hamburger. The slaughter machines spatter bacteria-laden faeces onto the carcasses so that most chicken flesh sold in the UK is swarming with salmonella, campylobacter and other dangerous bacteria.
As many as 300,000 people in Britain get sick from
salmonella poisoning each year, and about 100 die. ...after Chicken and eggs are a leading cause of food-borne months of caged misery illness. and – finally – starvation. AN ECOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE Chickens in the UK produce more than a million tons of manure every year, and chicken-processing plants use up to 100 million gallons of water per day. Many farms have violated environmental laws by discharging their waste into nearby rivers and streams.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
If you want to make sure a chicken dinner won’t poison your family – throw it away! Better still, don’t buy it in the first place. For a free vegetarian starter pack, including delicious eggless recipes, call PETA.
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