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Animals News tagged with hens

Urge ACT MPs to Ban Battery Cages ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, battery cages, hens, suffering, protection, environment )

Cher
- 81 days ago - unleashed.org.au
In around 9 days time an ACT Greens-introduced Bill to ban the battery cage will be debated in the ACT Legislative Assembly. The four Greens MPs need help to pressure other MLAs to support this move to free hens from their tiny battery cages
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ACTION ALERT: UPC Tells Little Rhody Egg Farms Owner: Stop Starving Your Hens!
Animals  (tags: investigation, little rhody egg farms, hens, abused, starved, imprisoned )

Simone
- 102 days ago - upc-online.org
In the previous issue of Poultry Press (Vol. 19, No. 1) we published an investigative report by Christa Albrecht-Vegas about Little Rhody Egg Farms in Foster, Rhode Island. Christa interviewed the owner, Eli Berkowitz, about his treatment of the 40,000
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Willow Wildlife Animal Sanctuary's Success in Finding Homes for Hens
Animals  (tags: animals, hens, sanctuary, rescue, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 129 days ago - gazette-news.co.uk
Julie Menzies, who runs the Willow Wildlife Animal Sanctuary, in Kirby Cross, provides refuge for a large number of battery hens from a Colchester farm ever year.
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And the Fires Rage On: 800,000 Birds Burn in Texas, 25,000 in Canada
Animals  (tags: horrific fire, hens, batteryhens, egg production, losses, animal suffering, reports )

Simone
- 138 days ago - animalrights.change.org
800,000 hens died in a Texas fire this week, though most news headlines seemed more concerned with reporting that the Cal-Maine egg facility was "damaged" in the fire.
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Turlock Egg Company: Activist Coerced Workers : Animal Group Says It Will Sue Gemperle Farms If It Doesn't Retract Claim
Animals  (tags: animals, hens, abused, egg company, lawsuit, coersion, animal group, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, AnimalCruelty )

Cher
- 564 days ago - modbee.com
Gemperle Farms accused an animal rights group of staging an undercover video that shows employees abusing hens, claiming that the footage was manipulated and workers were coerced. "We have reviewed the video images claiming to represent our
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Royal Society for Promotion of Cruelty to Animals (AU) Gives Its Official Seal of Approval to Pace Farm Barn-Laid Eggs.
Animals  (tags: hens, cruelty, RSPCA, Australia )

Live
- 636 days ago - smh.com.au
Royal Society for Promotion of Cruelty to Animals (Australia) promoting their own investment - Pace egg farms. THE RSPCA is endorsing a range of eggs which Animal Liberation says are laid by chickens kept in inhumane conditions.
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HUMANE SOCIETY PUSHES FOR CAGE FREE FARMS! Story N Comments!
Animals  (tags: chickens, cages, cagefree, batterycages, cruely, animalcruelty, sadness, abused, hens, humanesociety, novemberballot )

Melanie
- 638 days ago - insidebayarea.com
The controversial practice of raising hens and other farm animals in cramped cages came under renewed attack on Thursday, when the Humane Society of the United States announced it submitted enough signatures to easily qualify a ballot initiative banning..
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Future Bleak For Roosters From Cockfighting Ring
Animals  (tags: Cockfighting Ring, Roosters, Asian, fighting cocks, hens, wildanimals, suffering, slaughter, killing, law, endangered, environment, animals, abused, cruelty, death, crime, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, killed, sadness )

TW
- 645 days ago - cbs2chicago.com
The birds -- some 77 Asian fighting cocks and hens -- have been at an undisclosed location while Lake County Sheriff's Department detectives close out their investigation of an alleged cockfighting farm in Calumet Township that was raided two weeks ago.
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Lumpy Snake Gets Four Golf Balls Removed - Australia
Animals  (tags: australia, eggs, snake, carpet snake, python, hens, golf, good news )

Chrissy
- 696 days ago - news.theage.com.au
A carpet python has been saved from a bumpy slide to certain death by Gold Coast vets, who removed four golf balls from its intestines. The 80cm snake was found last month by a couple from Nobbys Creek in northern NSW, who had put the golf balls in their
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Take Action: US: Wendy's Needs to Warm Up to Animal Welfare
Animals  (tags: animalsuffering, abused, AnimalWelfare, chickens, hens, cagescrime, cruelty, animals )

Thunderr
- 761 days ago - community.hsus.org
Wendy's attitude toward animal welfare is frosty.After months of discussions with The HSUS,the cold-hearted company is still lagging behind its competitor, Burger King,when it comes to reducing cruelty to egg-laying hens.The HSUS has repeatedly urged Wend
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SAFE : Battery Hens-SAFE's Freedom for Hens Campaign
Animals  (tags: GoodNews, protection, hens, chickens, battery cages, victory )

Thunderr
- 844 days ago - safe.org.nz
SAFE rejoiced when the controversial code of welfare for layer hens was found to be in breach of the Animal Welfare Act by Parliament's Regulations Review Committee (RRC). The RRC released a 41-page report following an investigation into a joint complaint
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Harvard Hatches a Cage-Free Egg Policy
Animals  (tags: animal, welfare, Harvard University, hens, eggs, cage-free! )

Sandy
- 939 days ago - hsus.org
WASHINGTON--The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, applauds Harvard University today for implementing a policy that will significantly improve the welfare of egg-laying hens. Harvard has implemented
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