Chickens

Did you know Defra plans to weaken the few legal protections chickens currently have on factory farms?

A new billboard will be placed in Driffield to pay tribute to the 50,000 birds who were killed when two chicken sheds caught fire in the area.

If more people understood chickens, they would probably hesitate before consuming their flesh or eggs. Here are some of our favourite facts about chickens.

The lessons that chick-hatching projects teach children are neither educational nor compassionate, since they often cause animals to suffer.

Seventy per cent of chickens used for meat are raised on intensive farms. See what one of these farms in the UK looks like.

People power has helped stop a horrific new intensive broiler farm from being built.

After hearing from PETA and other animal protection groups, Defra has backtracked and told us it will not be allowing the poultry industry to set its own rules about how chickens should be treated.

The farmer withdrew the planning application for an intensive farm in Rufforth after it received thousands of objections from concerned local residents and compassionate people all over the country.

What’s the deal with the estimated 2.2 million chickens who are eaten in Britain each day?

Changing the name of Britain’s oldest pub to Ye Olde Clever Cocks would help celebrate chickens as the intelligent, sensitive and social animals they are.