Poultry: meat chickens
32 page report from 2005.
Uses scientific literature, especially SCAHAW report (2000), to detail the health and welfare issues caused by broiler breeding for fast growth, high stocking densities, lameness, heart disease, catching, transport and slaughter, plus broiler breeders. Focused mainly on EU. Discusses alternatives and reforms needed.
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Translated in 2003.
French translation of ‘The Welfare of Broiler chickens in the EU’ report.
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8 page report from 2002.
Colour illustrated overview of the broiler (meat) chicken industry and suffering of the birds from breeder birds to hatchery, to the growing sheds, to catching, transport and slaughter; includes health effects of selective breeding for fast growth, and antibiotic use. Alternatives and reforms required outlined.
8 page report from 2000.
Reviews recent scientific studies that show lameness is caused by selective breeding for fast growth. See also Welfare of Broiler Chickens (2003), which incorporates some of the content of this report.
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7 page report from 1993.
Also see 'The Welfare of Broiler Chickens in the EU' above and ‘Animal Welfare Problems in UK Slaughterhouses' (2001) under
Slaughter.
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