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In praise of cages for egg laying hens 

International efforts to ban chicken coops harms birds, farmers

April 29, 2009
by Dennis Avery

My wife and I used to have free-range chickens. We didn't get an abundance of eggs because the hens hid them in the barn hay and then brought us batches of live chicks instead of breakfast makings. And, they stopped laying during the winter so we had to buy commercial eggs at the local grocery.

Then the local foxes and hawks discovered our chickens, and we learned first-hand why people invented chicken houses: the roosters and non-nesting hens usually survived by roosting in the barn rafters, but the nesting hens and those with chicks got taken, with the chicks as appetizers. That's why Britain invented fox-hunting in the old days to protect the village hens. People also kept the birds inside their homes at night, which meant more disease risk, poor husbandry, and poor hygiene.

Reluctantly, the Averys decided to put the new chickens into a coop with a fenced yard and netting overhead to keep off the hawks.

Now our problem is that the chickens peck some of each others� feathers off. We haven't had any chickens pecked to death yet, but that's the typical problem with birds that are confined, but not caged. The "pecking order" is real and natural. The only real solution is to de-beak the birds and my wife won't allow it. We have thrown the roosters out of the "safe house" and the damaged hens are in a separate area re-feathering. But we have fewer than two dozen chickens to fuss over.

That's why the egg producers of the modern world have invented wire cages for their hens. The birds are kept safe and comfortable, and they're socially surrounded by other birds that can't peck them to death. Higher feed efficiency with the cages is kinder to the planet, because millions of acres don't have to be converted from wildlife habitat to grow extra feed and for chicken pastures.

Across the affluent world, bans on caged laying hens are being pushed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the U.S. HSUS is not your local Humane Society that accepts pets for adoption but a radical anti-pet group that wants to eliminate all domestic livestock and poultry, along with all pets and circus animals.

Activist pressure hit the European Union years ago, and the EU announced it would ban cages for laying hens pending a report from an advisory commission. In due course, the advisory commission reported that non-caged layers pecked each other to death more often, while spreading salmonella and other dangerous bacteria. Surprise!

Sweden refused to accept the EU commission's good-sense report, and moved ahead with banning cages for laying hens. Now, Sweden is reporting significant increases in cannibalism, bird disease and bird deaths. How does this help the birds? Meanwhile, the Swedes are importing eggs from neighboring countries that allow cages, in order to supply enough eggs for the kiddies.

California may go Sweden one better. California has already passed a layer-cage ban in a referendum vote that takes effect in 2015. Now Assembly Bill 1437 would ban any imported eggs from other states or other countries except the powdered and liquid eggs used for institutional cooking. California not only won't have electricity, they won't be eating omelets!

That's why I have recited our recent real-world experience, which sums up the history of chicken-raising over recent centuries. Now, like the U.S. Congress, which over the past 15 years demanded that banks make more housing loans to people who wouldn't make their payments, California and perhaps some other states are planning to make egg-production nearly impossible.

Do the activists pushing the cage bans really have the best interests of the birds and our children at heart?

Dennis T. Avery is a CFACT advisor, an environmental economist, and is a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.

DENNIS T. AVERY is a CFACT advisor and senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He is an environmental economist and was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Hundred Years, Readers may write him at PO Box 202, Churchville, VA 24421 or email to cgfi@hughes.net
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People do not need to eat eggs.

This article is nothing more than justification to continue the exploitation of other beings for an unnecessary product. If people crave any foods currently made with eggs, there are plant based analogs that are delicious, satiating and unlike eggs, do not produce HCA's - Hetero Cyclic Amenes, a known carcinogen, when prepared. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in America, and diet is strongly implicated around the world in the causes for different types of cancer. Don't buy the industry lies.

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by ProLibertate | Sunday, October 18, 2009  10:13:38 AM  |  Report
Dennis , Since moving out here next to Pike National Forest above Colorado Springs in 2005 from Manhattan , largely thanks to my sister who is an animal nut , I've experienced the cycle of life and death on a retail level uncomprehended in NYC . When I first came out she had chickens and roosters , a turkey , a pair of pea fowl , and ducks . And horses , and parrots and dogs and cats . Creatures coming up from out of the woods , and occasionally a new dog , reduced the fowl down to 3 ducks . The remaining female and her sons inbred back to about 10 ducks which declined back down to about 5 at which point my sister saw a deal on Craigslist for 10 free ducks from Denver's parks . We're now back down 10 total and haven't had any ducklings survive more than a few days this year . I think these duck tales sufficiently illustrate that I know where you're coming from , and don't need to get into the lives and deaths of various dogs and cats and horses - and a parrot .

There are some pix of the menagerie here on my http://www.cosy.com/home.htm .

Every night when I herd the ducks back into the barn , I feel like an accomplice to duck rape . I never expected to learn what human sized testicles male ducks have . They are never not horny .You can tell the females by the plucked , scabbed backs of their necks .

Even before I moved out here , I proposed that we need a constitutional amendment that nobody living in a metropolitan area of more than a half million can have any vote in what people in rural areas do with their resources . City folk are too arrogantly ignorant to have a voice .

by BobArmstrong | Sunday, August 30, 2009  7:45:18 PM  |  Report
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Dr. Singer says global warming made up by man, not man-made...

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If an herbicide, that can drastically improve farming, has proven to be safe for not only the animals in the environment, but also humans, it should be used, right? Not according to the EPA....

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The future of the bay looks bright: stewardship at its best....

{ from Science to save the Chesapeake Bay }

International efforts to ban chicken coops harms birds, farmers...

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How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since 1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant breeding...

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How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since 1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant breeding...

{ from Giving up meat to Save the Planet? }

The future of the bay looks bright: stewardship at its best....

{ from Science to save the Chesapeake Bay }

How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since 1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant breeding...

{ from Giving up meat to Save the Planet? }

How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since 1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant breeding...

{ from Giving up meat to Save the Planet? }

International efforts to ban chicken coops harms birds, farmers...

{ from In praise of cages for egg laying hens }

Scientific "consensus" and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist theories...

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Scientific "consensus" and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist theories...

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Three California counties reject measures to ban the use of GM crops...

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  • Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: 'Inconvenient Terrorist' latest in long line

    Inconvenient terrorist James Lee who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists

  • An Inconvenient Terrorist

    Armed eco-terrorist who experienced an “awakening” by watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was shot and killed after storming Discovery Channel Building. Radical manifesto condemns 'parasitic children' and human civilization, calling for sterilization and giving the planet back to the squirrels.

  • An ill wind in New Jersey

    Proposed windmill would cost $7 million, stand taller than the Statue of Liberty, and when the wind isn't blowing would need to be kept turning with electricity from a traditional plant in order to avoid mechanical failure.

  • End environmental experiments on Africans!

    Environmentalists are using African parents and children in anti-DDT experiments. They are playing with our lives. So are the government agencies and others who support their policies. This is wrong and immoral. And it is only one of the ways they use Africans as experimental laboratory animals.

  • Prepare for an ice age!

    "Little ice ages" are the flip side of the 1500-year warming cycle. We should take advantage of the favorable climate we are currently enjoying to increase research on high-yield agriculture, biotechnology, water conservation and other advances now only dreamt of.

  • Howard Stern: 'Bring back DDT!'

    Stern argues that New York's bedbug problem is nothing compared to the millions dying from malaria in Africa, quoting extensively from an article by CFACT's Paul Driessen.

  • New York's bedbugs vs. Africa's malaria crisis

    Our obsession with pesticide “risks” has very different consequences for America and Africa.

  • How to save the Chesapeake Bay: Oysters vs. Regulations

    Oysters kept the Bay clean in the past, but the EPA is ignoring this proven solution in favor of big government regulations.

  • New ethanol policy poses heavy cost for consumers

    E15 ethanol mandates would bring huge benefits for ethanol producers at the expense of the rest of us.

  • Empowering the poor in the Yucatan jungle

    Local villagers struggle to survive in Becan, but a new program promises to bring prosperity by unleashing their creativity and energy.

  • The global warming fleecing of the American taxpayer

    The federal government has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on research that has completely failed to affect temperatures or demonstrate an empirical link between human CO2 emissions and global warming.

  • Target: Monckton

    Lord Monckton is under attack, a sure sign that he’s winning on warming. Monckton fights back and refutes Prof. Abraham.

  • New coal mine approved in Utah

    In a victory for the nation’s beleaguered resources industry, Utah officials have approved a permit for a coal mine in their state.

  • EPA set to crack down on farm dust

    Agency believes dust is a pollutant and wants to impose stringent limitations on the amount of dust farmers are allowed to kick up while plying their trade.

  • Climate Depot’s award hat trick

    Marc Morano receives another award for his journalism covering the global warming movement.

  • Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice

    New study documents harmful effects of “cap-and-trade” and “endangerment” schemes.