Clearing out the hen house - NYT 9/2/10

Op-Ed Columnist
Cleaning the Henhouse
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: September 1, 2010

"About 95 percent of American egg-laying hens are still raised in small battery cages, which are bacterial breeding grounds and notoriously difficult to disinfect. Hens are crammed together, each getting less space than a letter-size sheet of paper. The tips of their beaks are often sheared off so they won’t peck each other to death.

They are sometimes fed bits of “spent hen meal” — ground up chickens. That’s right. We encourage them to be cannibals. "


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