chickens
Farms Are Intentionally Baking Chickens to Death
A controversial new slaughtering method can take several hours and involves intense suffering.
The Big Chicken Industry Really Treats Its Workers Like Shit
America's growing demand for cheap poultry is squeezing the industry, and the people who work long shifts at breakneck speed for low pay, often with little compensation for injuries incurred on the job, are bearing the brunt of it.
These University Students Are Swapping Booze for Beekeeping and Vegetables
Sustainability initiatives that see university grounds given over to beekeeping, chickens, and vegetable-growing in a bid to create "edible campuses" are becoming increasingly popular with British students.
Why Is It Still Legal to Use Human Antibiotics on Farm Animals?
There has been a bill to make it illegal since 1999, but congress won't touch it.
'Ventilation Shutdown': The Gruesome Last Resort for Bird Flu-Infected Farms
In a ventilation shutdown, the air systems in a chicken house are turned off, causing the birds to slowly overheat and suffocate.
The Ritual Slaughtering of Chickens on New York Streets Is Officially Legal
Despite the efforts of animal-rights groups, Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are free to swing chickens above their heads and slit their throats in the streets.
Someone Is Stealing Parisian Hipsters' Chickens
One trendy and eco-friendly restaurant in Paris has experienced the theft of six of their live chickens. Who is stealing this poultry and what gives?
Abz From 5ive is Selling His Brit Award on eBay to Fund Gardening Tools and He is Better Than Us All
Forty years after John Lennon sang "imagine no possessions", Abz has finally embodied that truth.
Japan Is Developing Eggs with White Yolks
The eggs—known as kometsuya, or "rice luster"—come from a poultry farm in the town of Otofuke, Hokkaido. There, the hens feast on a feed made of 68 percent rice.
Comparing Lions to Factory Farmed Chickens Is Pro-Human Bigotry
Animal activists get up in arms whenever meat-eaters mourn the death of, say, a famous lion instead of factory-farmed chickens. But this leaves animal activists looking like pro-human bigots.
You Can Now Fight High Egg Prices By Renting a Chicken Online
Egg prices may be skyrocketing, but you can get anything on the internet these days. Including live chickens for temporary use.
An Investment Banker's Solution to Factory Farming
Sonia Faruqi travelled to more than 60 farms around the world and she thinks she's found a cure for our addiction to industrial agriculture.