Wednesday 9 January 2008

Chicken farming to change in Britain .


A campaign to raise the standards of chicken production has been launched by chefs, the RSPCA and an animal rights group. Farmers in the UK will have to stop battery farming their egg-laying chickens by 2012, under new government proposals. A wee video relevant for S3 doing the farming unit at the moment and for S4 to revise is found here. This article here tells you what factory farming means and why it is cruel to the animals and the government has now agreed.

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