Caged hens are 'happier than free-range'

[Azbubu]

Free-range eggs might be the product of choice for the animal welfare-conscious shopper, but new research suggests hens kept in indoor cages are happier.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/batteryfarming/10445702/Caged-hens-are-happier-than-free-range.html

 

[Sherbang]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/batteryfarming/10445702/Caged-hens-are-happier-than-free-range.html

I wonder how they measured a hens happiness?
Do they have a happy-o-meter?

 

[STS]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/batteryfarming/10445702/Caged-hens-are-happier-than-free-range.html

oh yeah, all my chicken friends told me that they'er much happier in their small paid for units than those other poor chickens that have to wander around looking for food all day. it's like chicken socialism where my chicks come from

 

[LazyLion]

Is this another Pondering Panda Poll?

 

[Azbubu]

Clearly none of you have ever farmed chickens
Keyboard activists.

 

[Ninja'd]

I'd rather eat a chicken that knows what it was bred for (battery) than one who lives with a false sense of security and never sees it coming (free range).

 

[TehStranger]

Sounds like a lot of people I know.

 

[Garson007]

Sounds like a lot of people I know.

+1

 

[Batista]

I wonder how they measured a hens happiness?
Do they have a happy-o-meter?

No you use the patented Leon Schuster way.

 

[saor]

I'd rather eat a chicken that knows what it was bred for (battery) than one who lives with a false sense of security and never sees it coming (free range).

Because battery farming is less cruel than a false sense of security?

 

[Lycanthrope]

Sensationalist headline...

“Although you get some brilliant farms, you get some that are really not good.”

And this is what's important: conditions need to be regulated.

 

[b_crazy]

I'd rather eat a chicken that knows what it was bred for (battery) than one who lives with a false sense of security and never sees it coming (free range).

LOL! I'd rather eat a chicken that lived a full life, that probably lived it's life-long dream of bagging the hottest belter on the farm, or caught the most worms than every other chicken in the field (free range). Better than a battery chicken that lived a life of unfulfilled dreams, thereby consuming it's soul of misery, fear and anger.

 

[Ninja'd]

Either way they're kentucky fried delicious.

 

[saor]

Either way they're kentucky fried delicious.

To save yourself from turning it .

 

[Zewp]

Either way they're kentucky fried delicious.

I don't think kentucky serves you chicken, to be honest. :erm:

 

[zizebra]

Iam wondering if the happy chicken is happy to be eaten by ANC Cadres or DA cadres, poor or rich ppl