Call for end to 'cruel' battery cages for chickens. Nov. 19, 2011 — -- In the wake of an ABC News investigation into alleged unsanitary and inhumane practices at one of the nation's largest ...

An animal welfare lobby group is strongly opposing the battery cage poultry rearing system, saying it denies the birds their rights to movement and exposes them to high stress levels. Africa ...

Kenyan chicken farmers prefer battery cages, but rights groups call out cruelty. Despite opposition from animal welfare organisations that battery cage poultry farming is cruel, this system is ...

Participants at the West Africa Free chicken conference have expressed concerns about the suffering of birds brought about by the rising trends of battery cage systems.

Animal welfare activists have long been speaking about the cruel practices involved in poultry farming, especially the use of battery cages. (Representative image) CHENNAI: Animal welfare ...

Australia will phase out conventional layer hen cages by 2036 The Independent Poultry Welfare Panel has also recommended better welfare standards for meat chickens Victorian Farmers Federation say ...

Battery cages, a widely used system of housing egg-laying hens, are under attack by animal rights groups and some consumers. Here are pros and cons of the system cited by those on both sides of ...

Raising chicken in the battery cage system prevents them from consumption of forage, bathing in dusts, building nests, flagging their wings and that different medicines provided affects end consumers.

The intensity of this production system also lowered their costs. An egg produced in these cages sells for 30 cents each, while free-range eggs sell for 50 to 80 cents each.

New Delhi: Poultry owners should understand that animals raised for food too deserve to live free from cruelty, and so, layered battery-cage systems in India’s poultry industry should be ...