Cruelty to chickens

Battery cage conditions do nothing to deny 'ancestral memory': 'Chickens in Battery cages which have wire floors....can often be seen to go through all the motions of having a dust bath. If such dust-deprived birds are eventually given access to something in which they can have a real dust-bath....they go in for a complete orgy of dust-bathing. They do it over and over again, apparently masking up for lost time...' Through Our Eyes Only, Dr. Maraian Stamp Dawkins, Department of Zoology, Oxford University (WH Freeman, Spektrum, 1993) read more