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EGGS 72% (or 2.1 billion) of eggs in Australia are produced from hens housed in battery cages. Unable to express their natural behaviours, battery hens live their year-long lives standing on a wire mesh floor, with less space each than this piece of paper. Caged hens can’t stretch out and flap their wings, perch, roost, dust bathe, forage for food or satisfy their natural urge to lay their eggs in a nest. It’s a miserable life. Choosing your eggs wisely means choosing barn-laid, free-range or RSPCA Approved. CHICKEN Meat chickens (broilers) and egg laying hens are two different breeds of bird, bred for different purposes. In Australia, most meat chickens are farmed in large sheds holding around 40,000 chickens. Conventional meat chickens are kept in barren conditions with little room to move as the bird reaches slaughter weight. After years of selective breeding this can be as early as 35 days old. The birds’ fast growth can lead to leg, joint, bone and heart problems or sudden death. Choosing your chicken meat wisely means choosing free-range. PORK Most pigs in Australia will never step foot in the outdoors. They can’t root in the dirt, wallow in the mud or forage for food. Most breeding sows in Australia are confined in sow stalls for all or part of their pregnancy then are moved to an even smaller, farrowing crate, until their piglets are weaned. Pigs farmed in these systems suffer through a continuous cycle of chronic frustration. Choosing your pork wisely means choosing free-range, bred free-range or RSPCA Approved.
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