Chickens are intelligent, sensitive animals who deserve humane treatment
About 680 million chickens are raised for meat and eggs in Canada each year. Produced in factories like mere things, they live short, nightmarish lives. Do you know where your food comes from?
650,000,000 chickens in Canada are raised for meat each year a.k.a. "broiler chickens".
Raised in crowded, dark barns, meat chickens first see sunlight on the way to slaughter. Many die en route. Birds used for breeding live for about 1 year and endure stress, confinement, and deprivation. Their offspring is killed for meat at just over 1 month of age.
26,000,000 chickens in Canada lay eggs for human consumption.
90% of egg laying hens in Canada live packed into rows of filthy "battery" cages. Forced to lay 20 times more eggs than their wild relatives, hens suffer severe injuries. After just 1 year of laying eggs, when aggressive egg production declines, the "spent" hens are killed.
In both magnitude and severity, [chicken production is] the single most severe example of man’s inhumanity to another sentient animal.
In the news
Concordia University animation film student Val Kob raises awareness about the difficult life of a laying hen in Canada in this 1:37 minute animation.
April 20, 2016
Loblaw, Metro, Sobey's and Walmart Canada, Canada's four largest food retailers under the Retail Council of Canada umbrella, made a key announcement which will greatly improve conditions for Canada's laying hens: The grocers committed to not purchasing any eggs from hens kept in cages after the end of 2025.
March 18, 2016
The Egg Farmers of Canada announced an end to battery cages by 2036. However, their media release advocates "colony" or "enriched" cages for laying hens, not cage-free - a move CCFA believes does not go far enough. Please send a letter to Egg Farmers of Canada to let them know you support cage-free.
February 5, 2016
McDonald's has announced a ten-year timeline to switch to cage-free eggs at its Canadian and U.S. supply chains. Currently the two supply chains use more than two billion eggs from caged hens. The switch will improve life for nearly eight million animals per year. McDonald's has already implemented a similar policy in other parts of the world, including Europe.
March 18, 2016
