debeaking

Whereas if you put three of Fairuza Balk together in the same queen-sized bed, they would probably fight amongst themselves, like battery hens that had evaded the debeaking machine.

Top 50 follow-up amuchmoreexotic 2008

Crowding chickens together in tiny cages for their natural lives, debeaking them so they won't peck each other to death from frustration, moulting them - depriving them of food for a period to stimulate egg production -- all these practices can never be construed as humane by anyone who views chickens as living beings who have basic needs like our own.

A Compassionate Voice from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia 2009

"Intense pain, shock and bleeding result" from debeaking -- which is done to offset the effects of crowding -- and "some chicks may die outright in the process," says Nedim C. Buyukmihci, V.M.D.,

Video Shows Price of Cheap Eggs: Chicks Ground Up Alive 2009

Whatever the hunter's motives may be he or she is usually not debeaking a bird or feeding an animal ground up animal parts or sawing off tails or ripping it apart while it's still alive or so on.

Forgive Michael Vick? Steven Barnes 2009

Ordinary branding with a branding iron, stapling ear tags, putting rings in noses, castration, debeaking, declawing, tail docking and ear cropping are certainly intentional maiming or mutilation, and not likely to seem particularly outrageous.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Unusual State-Level Hunting and Animal Killing Rules: 2009

Also shown in the Mercy For Animals video is the debeaking procedure in which chicks are inserted en mass into a laser cutter where they dangle by their beaks, struggling, while burns are inflicted that make part of their beak fall off in a week.

Video Shows Price of Cheap Eggs: Chicks Ground Up Alive 2009

They endure many agonizing procedures like debeaking, tail-docking, castration, toe removal and branding – all performed without painkiller.

Attack of the Vegan Molecule! 2008

And the only simple pleasure they have, eating, is hampered by the mutilation of debeaking, a terrifying and painful procedure done to chickens so they don't hurt each other in reaction to the extremely stressful, confined conditions they are forced to live in.

Cheri Shankar: Not So Eggcellent 2008

There were no challenges to the science behind debeaking chicks or putting them into a grinder at birth -- depending on gender -- or veal and gestation crates.

Defending Agriculture and Sometimes Horse Slaughter and Michael Vick 2008

While egg industry veterinarians work the news show circuit, no veterinarian care is given to laying hens like those in the video who suffer from orbital lesions occluding their eyes, debeaking mutilations hampering their eating and severe trauma around their cloacas or vents.

Why do we need Prop 2? Ask these Norco Ranch hens 2008