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| Animals raised for food deserve respect and compassion. |
In response to the rising use of intensive confinement facilities in Indian egg and meat production, HSI has launched a campaign to improve the welfare of animals used for food in India.
The vast majority of commercial egg and meat products come from factories that do not provide for many of the animals' most basic needs and that impose significant stress on them.
Egg-laying hens spend their lives confined in small, barren battery cages stacked several tiers high and extending down long rows. Each cage is so little that the birds are unable to stretch their wings, walk, or engage in many of their natural behaviors. View photographs of egg-production facilities in India, then learn more about HSI's campaign to end battery cage use there. Sign the No Battery Egg Pledge.
Broiler chickens do not fare much better, as they live crowded into sheds with thousands of other birds. The sheds are rarely cleaned in between cycles, and the ammonia fumes from the accumulated feces sometimes burn the birds' skin. These crowded, stressful and unsanitary conditions are ripe for the development and spread of disease, including avian influenza ("bird flu").
HSI works with egg and meat producers, as well as food retailers, to implement higher animal welfare standards in the food industry.
Join the All-India Animal Compassion Movement! Find out what you can do to improve the welfare of animals raised for food in India.
