Factory farming is hell!

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Foraging, pecking, dust-bathing in the sun, her eggs and raise chicks: children books and continue to evoke the daily life of hens happy and carefree. In the real world, there is less room for nice stories. Every year in France, more than 800 million chickens are raised in appalling conditions. During their short life, at any time they do not know the sun's heat, or softness of the air. Their sad existence is going on inside of hangars unhealthy and overcrowded with no windows, where each does not even have space for an A4 page.

Debeaking raw
To avoid aggressive behavior triggered by nearby ranchers settle the beaks of chicks just hours after hatching using a white-hot blade. The raw debeaking is an operation so painful that sometimes the chicks die of heart attack, or leave later starve pecking became so painful.

Intense stress
Hangars overcrowded and cramped cages make it impossible for any social relationship. Unable to give free rein to their most basic behaviors, scratching the ground or to a nest, many hens become stressed, aggressive or demented to the point that self-mutilation are common.

The sad fate of the little chicks
Among the animals raised for meat, chickens are by far the most numerous. Every year in France, more than 830 million end up in our plates.

At the time of slaughter, the chickens have only 41 days. In nature, they remain with their mother for another good month and could live until the age of six or seven years. The chickens on the market are therefore poor deformed chicks.

Genetic manipulation, drugs and other substances added to food can get an explosive growth, but some organs do not grow as fast as the rest of the body. Unable to bear the weight of a body so disproportionate leg bones deform or break. Birds develop painful deformities that prevent them from moving normally (a report by the INRA shows that 75 to 90% of animals in intensive farming have altered gait) and force them to crawl to the water points and of food. Those who can not reach them die of hunger and dehydration.

Often the heart as hard to follow this rapid growth and millions of chickens suffer from heart failure (88 million die each year in Europe).

Transportation is another opportunity to stress and suffering. It is not unusual for handlers who collect chickens break their bones coming out of the cages and the piling up in boxes. Seized by the legs and handled without care, many of them suffer from painful bleeding before reaching the slaughterhouse.

At the end of the cages, the birds are hung by their feet to a mechanical chain. The head is then immersed in an electrified bath to stun them (it is the "electrical stunning").