PETA want Paris Hilton to do voice over for video on cruelty to battery hens
Animal rights group PETA are trying to recruit ex-con Paris Hilton to do a voice over for a video to raise awareness about the cramped and inhumane conditions suffered by battery hens. They feel that once Paris gets out of her coop she will have a better understanding of what these poor creatures go through so humans can enjoy an omelette or a boiled egg.
PETA spokesman Dan Mathews said: "We’re asking Paris to narrate our Kentucky Fried Cruelty video showing how chickens are routinely crammed into tiny cages and suffer broken wings and legs. Unlike inmates at the jail in LA, these animals get no reprieve or medical treatment."
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In the UK alone there are over 20 million battery hens, laying cheap eggs for our benefit. They are put into these cramped cages at around 20 weeks old, and remain there for 52 weeks before they are finally put out of their misery and sent to slaughter. The average cage has the floor area of a sheet of A4 paper, therefore hens can't perform basic functions like flapping their wings, stretching, turning around or perching. A staggering 70% of eggs eaten in Britain are from battery farms and the sad fact is these hens only lay around 15 more eggs each year than a free range chicken, so it's not even as if this type of farming is more productive.
There is a plan to ban 'barren' battery cages by 2012 (which are the cages currently used), but due to fierce opposition from the poultry industry a loophole has been created whereby hens can be rehoused in 'enriched' cages, which are only slightly bigger and still don't address the problem of lack of outdoor exercise and brittle bone disease caused by the hens being unable to move around freely. It's felt that if an outright ban is imposed there will be mass importing of cheap, foreign eggs onto the market and poultry farmers will lose their livelihood.
If you are interested in helping hens who have been rescued from battery farms, you can rehome or sponsor them with the help of The Hen House.
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Hey I just found a Chloe Paddington bag that I saw Paris Hilton wearing.
It's the cream colored one - and the cost is a steal!!!
Posted by: amazed | June 19, 2007 9:23 PM