Chickens

Introduction

There are over 24 billion chickens in the world – more than three birds for every one person. Sadly, almost all of these chickens are confined to factory farms where they are grown for meat (broiler chickens), or kept to produce eggs (egg-laying hens). Regardless of the reason they are farmed, they all face terrible cruelty in their short lives. Broiler chickens are bred to grow far too fast, which causes many health problems for the bird. Egg-laying hens are subjected to mutilations and killed as soon as they stop laying enough eggs.