Who in their lives thought they were just laying chickens and chickens and hens sin of superficiality.
May 2002: chickens already plucked the new features coming in transgenic food. Suffers less heat, less fat and especially does not require a laborious work of plucking because it is totally devoid of feathers [1] . The poor chicken was born naked in a university in Israel. The advantages are obvious: no more dead birds in factory farms in the heat and reduce processing costs at slaughter. This chicken is not yet finished in our supermarkets, but our tables are not better.
The last fifty years have taught us that there are now two different kinds of poultry, poultry meat (broilers or, sometimes called hybrids) and laying hens. We call them chickens and chickens yet, but they have different metabolisms and bodies are designed to perform efficiently in different functions. Laying hens produce eggs (their egg production more than doubled from the thirties to the present). I produce broiler meat. The common breeds of chicken until a few decades ago are now used only in niche areas or cattery. For existing farms are used hybrids, species born in the laboratories of genetics, the most commonly used are 308.708 Ross, PM3 (you can buy your Ross broilers bred on site http://67.20.64.230/ss/ross , you send the manual instructions) and Cobb (whose patents are held by the The Cobb Breeding Company Ltd, please visit http://www.cobb-vantress.com/Products/Cobb500.aspx , you may find it funny). Through genetic engineering techniques, the broilers were induced to grow more than double in less than half the time (their daily growth rate rose nearly four hundred percent [2] . I our grandparents reminiscent of a chicken with a life expectancy of 7-10 years. We remember that the broilers are slaughtered around 6-7 weeks and not just a market strategy; more could not live even if they wished, were designed to die young.
WEANING
The billions of broilers and laying hens kept by the food industry today are born orphans. The hen has been replaced by more modern and efficient incubators. farms hens chicks males (statistically half), not for man to become flesh and not designed by nature to produce eggs, are literally destroyed. Some of them are sucked into a series of pipes to finish up a gear tray where he died. Others are eliminated in different ways, and it is impossible to say which are the lucky ones. Some are thrown and left to die in large plastic containers, the weak are pushed to the bottom where they slowly suffocate, stifle the strongest at the top. Others are crushed alive in a meat grinder. Still others die crushed in special machines to be processed into meal for livestock animals or fertilizers [3] . Torture that passes for normality.
Female chicks, producing eggs, it is immediately carried out the chipped or amputation of the beak. These animals, once inserted into the production cycle, will live in small crowded cages, in conditions of hardship, illness, frustration, boredom, and develop aggressive behavior toward their neighbors, until you get to real cannibalism . In an attempt to put an end to the injuries caused by this behavior profoundly "anti-social" rather than act on the causes of stress, farmers amputate his beak the chickens. The day after the birth of her beak full of nerve endings and a variety of receptors sensitive to pain, is cut with a red-hot blade or with a special machine similar to the guillotines. Some breeders claim that the practice is painless, but a commission of experts of the British Government, under the guidance of the zoologist Professor FW Rogers Brambell, appointed to investigate into the intensive, found instead that: between the horn and bone There is a thin layer of highly sensitive lightweight fabric, which resembles the "living part" human nail. The hot knife used for trimming of beaks through this set of horn, bone and sensitive tissue causing severe pain [4] . This procedure is so painful that many chicks die of shock. Moreover, this operation leaves often exposed nerve endings in the beak, thus a constant pain throughout the life of the bird [5] . With the beak
mutilated chicken is no longer able to walk stably, eat, drink, groom themselves normally. The operation is performed by simple workers chipped in succession on a large number of chicks, of course, without anesthesia. Not unusual to amputate his beak you end up hurting even the tongue. Amputation is repeated several times in the lives of these poor creatures as the beak, mutilated in the very young, tends to recur [6] .
L 'chicks apocalypse: it is known on the internet this movie http://www.tvanimalista .info / video / livestock-slaughtering-egg-producing chickens / (for those who prefer the original report http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery/ ). No grim scene, nothing to disturb your sleep, I guarantee, you can rest easy. The report was taken with a camera hidden in the establishment of incubation Hy-Line International Iowa. For two weeks the association Mercy For Animals investigators have documented the systematic cruelty faced by the chicks in these kinds of establishments: 150 000 live male chicks are crushed each day, in a single establishment.
The suffering is profound, incurable pain. These poor innocent creatures, destroyed so vile, they are actually the most successful, chicks intended to become laying hens or broilers now refer to the time of death and are preparing to inaugurate their long life of horror, agony and cruelty.
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[1] http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/news.php?newsid=21989
[2] http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371 / journal.pone.0001545
[3] http://www.saicosamangi.info/animali/galline.html
[4] http://www.msmary.edu/inside/academic-departments/philosophy / tolle-lege/TL2008_final.pdf
[5] http://www.oltrelaspecie.org/download/la-realta-negli-allevamenti-intensivi.pdf
[6] http://www.upc -online.org/winter07/debeaking.html
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