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Should Defra be allowed to get away with a U-turn on banning the barbaric act of beak trimming?
Beak trimming is practised to prevent chickens which are kept in cramped and crowded conditions from pecking each other. Beak trimming or ‘debeaking’ as It is known, entails removing up to one third a chicken’ beak with a red hot blade or infra-red beam and causes the animal a great deal of pain. A ban on this ugly practise was announced in 2002 was due to take effect in January 2011 but now, due to pressure from battery egg producers via a government advisory body, it looks like Defra will not be imposing the ban and merely reviewing in 2015, plans to bring in a ban at some unspecified time in the future.
Sources:
http://www.ciwf.org.uk/news/laying_hens/ science_backs_the_beak_trimming_ban.aspx
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that’s disgusting that they are allowed to do that. No they shouldn’t get away with it. Defra should stand up and keep the plan they chose, to ban this kind of treatment, i can’t believe they would cave.
carissapoo | Feb 06, 2010
So you want chickens to peck each other to death?
Why not push for better living conditions that permit the hens from being so cramped and forced into hostilities with each other?
C | Feb 06, 2010
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