About the way hens are treated on farms...

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Poland


8th March 2005


The Editor,
ST Ives Limes and Echo,
High Street,
St Ives,
Cornwall
TR26 1RS



Dear Sir / Madam,

I am writing to protest about the way hens are treated in many parts of Europe.

They are kept in “batteries” or really small cages. They are treated in terrible way. They can’t run or even breathe fresh air! Usually three or four hens are kept in one ‘battery’. They are unable to clean thair feathers, because there’s not enough space in their cages. They aren’t treated better than slaves. It is imposiible for them to flap their wings. They are fed very modestly and only one sort of food is given to them. Hens are weak and they aren’t resistant to diseases. Five of six cages are put on top of each other to save space for more ‘batteries’. The result is that hens live in a terrible noise. They often get ill or even die but nobody really cares. Thay are treated like machines producing eggs. Thay don’t have a real life. Their cages aren’t thir home, but a prison...

I think we should all try to buy free-range eggs, not eggs from battery hens. People who have battery farms will earn less money and they will give up that kind of farming.


Yours faithfully,
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