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Urgent: Tell Your MP to Help Chickens!

The UK government is pushing to legalise a cruel method of catching chickens that causes immense pain and fear. Chickens would be allowed to be grabbed by their sensitive legs and carried upside down when crammed into crates before slaughter. The new regulations are set to come into force on 22 July – unless Members of Parliament step up and challenge this legislation. Please urge your MP to sign Early Day Motion 64056, to help stop these plans.

© Jo-Anne McArthur / Animal Equality / We Animals

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A Step Backwards for UK Legislation

This would mark the first move away from EU law provisions that weaken animal protections on farms. Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Defra, promised that the Labour Party would introduce the biggest boost in animal welfare in a generation. However, making it lawful to catch chickens by their legs would be the opposite. This is clearly an effort to prioritise profit over animal welfare.

Chickens Deserve Better

Chickens are complex, curious birds who love to play and will run, jump, and sunbathe when given the chance. Yet on farms where they’re exploited for their flesh and eggs, they’re kept in dark, cramped sheds, languishing in their own waste and never feeling the sun’s warmth on their back or grass beneath their feet. Many lose their feathers due to the high levels of ammonia and the stress of extreme noise, stench, and confinement.

Chickens used for eggs are kept alive until they’re no longer profitable. At around 18 months old, they are killed en masse: tens of thousands of them are roughly grabbed and chucked into trays, loaded onto lorries, and sent to a slaughterhouse.

Chickens killed for their flesh live only around 42 days, by which time many are immobile, unable to stand due to the crushing weight of their own unnaturally large bodies. Please spare chickens a miserable life and a terrifying death by never eating birds or their eggs.

The very least Defra can do for these sensitive individuals is spare them additional stress and injury before they’re killed. The law must not be weakened so that catching them by the legs and flipping them upside down is legalised.

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