Category Archives: Factory Farming

Arrow

Arrow was found in an intensive quail farm. She was caged with one other hen and one rooster. They had maybe other breeds of hens and roosters kept this way also. She was being kept so her fertile eggs could be hatched and her purebred Sussex chicks could be sold to the public. Backyard chickens…

Animal Transport

They call it “livestock transport”, when what it really is is as many animals pushed on to a truck as possible with no care about the weather conditions or the duration. 2 degrees or over 40 degrees, animals bred for food are still forced on to trucks and made to endure long trips to abattoirs…

Strawberry

When I first saw her, her little body was squashed up against the cage and her long bottom beak and roughly cut shorter top beak jutted through the bars to her neighbours cage. She looked frightened and worried. Her little face told a story of fear and sadness. It’s hard to pick the girls I…

Babushka

“All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya!” She hid up the back of the cage, but even as we quickly walked by and flashed our lights on the cages, I saw her. I saw the tall, terrified girl up the back who looked like a sad old lady with one dead eye. The decisions on who to…

Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel, you’ve torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Rebel Rebel, I love you so She was named after a David Bowie song because that’s exactly who she is, she is a complete Rebel. When there’s a chicken on the wrong side of the fence…