- Signatures: 100
- Goal: 1,000
- Deadline: 7-27-2005
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PLEASE sign if you want to speak for animals that have no voice. PLEASE sign if you believe no animal should be imprisoned for life. PLEASE sign if you believe free range hens are the way forward. PLEASE SIGN TO BAN THIS DESPICABLE CRUELTY ONCE AND FOR ALL! ***READ BELOW***
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Age | Gender | City | State | What do you think about battery hen eggs? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 7:50 pm PST, Nov 16 | Erin M | 17 | Female | i think its disgusting and it needs to stop | |||
| 99 | 3:18 am PDT, Aug 27 | Mitchell Rebecchi | 9 | Male | melbourne | |||
| 98 | 1:34 am PDT, Aug 15 | Mr. | Philip Coory | 13 | Male | It's horrible! | ||
| 97 | 2:52 am PDT, Jul 3 | Ms. | helen firth | 18 | Female | ST HELENS | DISGRACEFUL THAT ANYONE WOULD KEEP HENS IN THIS CONDITION | |
| 96 | 5:38 pm PDT, May 29 | Mr. | steven christian | 119 | Male | utterly soeachless here! :o( Birds are suposed 2 be free, free 2 roam in pastures of green grass + meadows of yellow butter cups - NOT kept imprisoned in tiny cages in barns from hell unable 2 turn around, were they endure NEVER ENDING unimaginable pain + suffering 24 hours a day as they SCREAM in agony + pain, as they burn in there own urine !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o( | ||
| 95 | 2:06 am PDT, Mar 28 | Ms. | Nicole McGill | 17 | Female | Geelong, Victoria, Australia | I think it's absolutely appalling what these hens are made to endure for their entire life! I'm in year 12 and currently working on my oral presentation for which i'm studying the cruelty of battery hens. There are so many other humane alternatives to this system and this cruelty needs to be banned! | |
| 94 | 10:40 pm PDT, Mar 27 | Ms. | Anonymous | 14 | Female | christchurch | It is sick and cruel and also unneccesary | |
| 93 | 7:55 am PST, Jan 22 | Julie Cameron | 35 | Female | Michigan | |||
| 92 | 12:05 am PST, Jan 9 | Mr. | Kevin Banks | 42 | Male | Should not be legal, cruelty to the hens | ||
| 91 | 10:55 am PST, Nov 18 | Brian Outten | 45 | Male | This barbaric practice has to be drawing to an end as we are all becoming more aware of the harm it causes and we can help by doing our bit. | |||
| 90 | 8:27 pm PST, Nov 5 | Cathy Raphael | 61 | Female | Pennsylvania | |||
| 89 | 7:41 pm PST, Nov 5 | Mrs. | Anonymous | 33 | Female | pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | I have personally visited the smallest of family egg farms to the largest of factory egg facilities and have witnessed first hand the conditions at each end of the spectrum, battery cages are a horrific method of intensive confinement and should be absolutely banned in every state in our nation. There should not be any compromise or welfare type measure such as attempting to expand or improve upon the design of the cage it should simply be banned. I was a Humane Police officer in the State of Pennsylvania until several years ago and I can honestly tell you that battery cages were the worst type of intensive confinement I have ever witnessed. |
| 88 | 1:14 am PDT, Oct 28 | Kathryn Livsey | 49 | Female | Danville | California | They are inhumane and unhealthy for the animals and ultimately the consumer. The cruelty of not allowing these hens to do natural behaviors ie, nesting, dust bathing and to simply be able to move around and spread their wings is beyond comprehension. The cages are filthy and often contain live hens along with decomposing ones. I am on the Yes on Prop 2 campaign(phone calls, passing out leaflets, etc)-and I could tell you more...well, just go to the yesonprop2 website and you'll see all the realities. Thanks to everyone who supports this proposition! | |
| 87 | 4:35 am PDT, Aug 30 | Ms. | Melanie Helbling | 27 | Female | Brisbane | Barbaric, cruel and unnecessary | |
| 86 | 5:08 am PDT, Aug 23 | Mrs. | Melissa McGuinness | 29 | Female | Forrestfield | After in depth research I have come to conclusion that hens kept in battery hen environments suffer as a result. They are kept in one of the most inhumane ways that I have come across.Such treatment is incomprehensible and how it could still be common practice in the year 2008 is beyond me. Maximum profit at minimal cost is again the reason for such treatment and until people stop bying caged eggs this type of barbaric behaviour willcontinue. | |
| 85 | 7:46 am PDT, Aug 4 | David Rose | 26 | Male | Massachusetts | its alarming, and free range hens produce MORE eggs than battery caged hens. | ||
| 84 | 2:47 pm PDT, Jul 20 | greta malkotzoglou | 32 | Female | Athens | |||
| 83 | 2:03 am PDT, Jul 6 | Ms. | Alice Kiff | 10 | Female | Xxx | It is so cruel how these chickens are trapped for life. I am a vegetarian and strongly agree with the ban of battery eggs! | |
| 82 | 5:36 am PDT, Jun 28 | hazel jones | 10 | Female | keeping battery units going is simply a cruel and disgusting practice | |||
| 81 | 12:54 pm PDT, May 7 | Ms. | Sue Elizabeth McRae | 39 | Female | Ponder | Texas | I am currently working on a PowerPoint presentation called "Towards a global ban on battery cages for egglaying hens -- an anthropological perspective applying the spiritual principle of Ahimsa". Please let's find a way to make battery cages illegal by supporting small family farms and cruelty-free conditions for hens and all factory farmed sentient beings! |
| 80 | 1:17 pm PDT, May 1 | Ms. | Anonymous | 14 | Female | Pennsylvania | that they should never be eaten and people should get there own chickens | |
| 79 | 10:41 pm PDT, Mar 23 | Elizabeth Animal Lover | 15 | Female | Unforgiveable.... Im involved in a school amnesty international group and i am making a voice for these innocent creatures. I wont stop until they hear what i have to say. Dont sit around while this is happening..TAKE ACTION NOW! "Its not just the power of one, but the power of EVERYone" Peace for the animals starts now!!! | |||
| 78 | 9:07 pm PST, Feb 22 | Danielle Bizjak | 20 | Female | ||||
| 77 | 4:05 pm PST, Feb 17 | Jessica Alice Hopkins | 19 | Female | Bradford | |||
| 76 | 10:07 pm PST, Feb 7 | Ms. | Diane Green | 61 | Female | Plymouth | I hate them. Its cruelty of the worst kind. | |
| 75 | 11:06 am PST, Jan 30 | Kyna Crain | 40 | Female | Great Falls | Montana | ||
| 74 | 3:33 pm PST, Jan 17 | Mr. | David Purchase | 57 | Male | Rugeley | I keep free range chickens and although a lot of hard work, their personalities make it so enjoyable. | |
| 73 | 7:56 pm PST, Dec 14 | Ms. | suzette gahan | 42 | Female | caringbah | if the hens could speak english the practise would be called inhuman by 99% of people. Animals can't talk so they r treated like this. The farmers who do this r the inhuman beings. | |
| 72 | 11:05 am PST, Nov 16 | Ms. | Amy O Reilly | 17 | Female | Shocking. It should NOT be LEGAL to keep battery hens. | ||
| 71 | 6:35 am PDT, May 22 | Amanda Cromwell | 19 | Female | Chicago | Illinois | ||
| 70 | 1:33 pm PDT, May 17 | Van Cauwenbergh Benoit | 28 | Female | Armed Forces Americas | |||
| 69 | 1:52 pm PDT, May 16 | Lisa Baeuerlen | 27 | Female | Sacramento | California | ||
| 68 | 12:59 am PDT, May 12 | karen eisenlord | 56 | Female | Los Angeles | California | Keeping hens in cages their entire lives is unbelievably cruel and totally unethical. I only buy eggs from free-range and grain-fed chickens! Boycott buying eggs from factory-produced battery hen eggs. | |
| 67 | 11:15 pm PDT, May 10 | jane mooner | 20 | Female | it is a cruel and in humaine practise. we are not allowed to treat any other animal this way so why should thse poor birds suffer? if we put any other animal in their position then they would die in a matter of months. when these poor birds can lay no more they are killed and sold as b grade meat. pls give them a chance at a proper life!!! | |||
| 66 | 2:06 pm PDT, May 6 | William Coulter | 58 | Male | Riverside | |||
| 65 | 10:47 am PDT, Apr 27 | REBECA GONZALEZ | 25 | Female | Mexico Df | SO bad, cruel, and sick!!! | ||
| 64 | 6:11 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Melissa Bardwell | 27 | Female | Seattle | Washington | ||
| 63 | 9:23 am PDT, Apr 15 | Mr. | Rui Pereira | 32 | Male | Michigan | Put yourself in tha animals position and it's plain to see. This is a holocaust for our own needs and complete disregard for the needs of others. For our sake I hope Karma is a lie. | |
| 62 | 3:45 pm PDT, Apr 9 | Joseline Gomez | 26 | Female | Burbank | California | ||
| 61 | 9:21 am PDT, Apr 6 | Joe Morningstar | 24 | Male | koreatown | California | I think this is ok. Chickens and their eggs are a crop. Like corn. Dont overthink these things. Also, there are no free range chickens anywhere. You people, have you ever been to a farm. Their are no fields where chickens run free and lay eggs. Come on, think about it. | |
| 60 | 2:40 am PDT, Apr 6 | Mr. | bob ujszaszi | 46 | Male | redondo beach | California | unneccessary... let's stop it now! |
| 59 | 1:52 am PDT, Apr 6 | Mr. | charles grover | 27 | Male | hollywod | California | ANYONE CAN SEE IT'S ANIMAL TORTURE!!! |
| 58 | 9:35 pm PDT, Apr 5 | Mr. | Ryan Faulkner | 21 | Male | West LA | California | animal cruelty!!! I will not buy battery eggs. |
| 57 | 5:06 pm PDT, Mar 27 | Aiz T | 15 | Female | ||||
| 56 | 6:33 am PDT, Mar 23 | Ms. | Isabelle Rogers | 12 | Female | Frome | it is wrong and cruel what they subject chickens to. | |
| 55 | 6:29 am PDT, Mar 23 | Ms. | Charlotte Peat | 13 | Female | Bath | It's disgraceful! Battery farmers should be ashamed of themselves. | |
| 54 | 3:30 am PDT, Mar 23 | daniel Mears | 12 | Male | Frome | |||
| 53 | 4:10 am PDT, Mar 13 | Ms. | aisha khan | 28 | Female | dudley | i think it disgusting, why cant they just abolish all the factorys,and make beutiful open spaces for the hens to lay naturaly and happily!! | |
| 52 | 1:38 pm PDT, Mar 12 | Anna tomayko | 16 | Female | Stow | Ohio | ||
| 51 | 4:06 pm PST, Mar 10 | Anonymous | 24 | Female | Boston | Massachusetts |
***HELP BAN THE CRUELTY OF BATTERY HEN EGGS***
A battery hen spends it's entire life in a cage the size of an A4 piece of paper, or 3 to the size of a microwave oven. The hen is squeezed inside a small wire cage with three to eight or nine other tormented hens amid tiers of identical cages in gloomy sheds holding 50,000 to 125,000 debeaked, terrified, bewildered birds.
The cage is so small the hens cannot stretch their wings or even move around. Their feet often grow around the wire floor that they are forced to stand on, making them unble to reach the food, and the hen starves to death, often rotting away beside her cagemates. Click the "Click here for more info" link to see a photo of this.
Chicks at just ONE day old have their beaks sliced off with a hot iron, which will cause pain for the rest of their lives. This is to stop them pecking each other out of boredom, although they still do it, pulling each others feathers out and mutilating themselves too.
Sometimes the weakest hen in the cage gets pecked to death by the stronger ones.
Often hens use corpses to lay their eggs on, and these eggs roll free and end up in YOUR supermarket!
This petition will be sent to the Prime Minister and the chairmen of ALL major supermarket chains, in an attempt to help stop them selling battery eggs.
Did you know that battery eggs are also used in almost ALL supermarket products like cakes, pasta, mayonnaise, and quiches? We will also campaign for supermarkets to replace these with FREE RANGE eggs!
IT SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL TO DO THIS TO SO MANY INNOCENT ANIMALS! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SIGNING!
***VISIT THE "CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO" LINK FOR SOME PICTURES OF THIS CRUEL BARBARITY***
The cage is so small the hens cannot stretch their wings or even move around. Their feet often grow around the wire floor that they are forced to stand on, making them unble to reach the food, and the hen starves to death, often rotting away beside her cagemates. Click the "Click here for more info" link to see a photo of this.
Chicks at just ONE day old have their beaks sliced off with a hot iron, which will cause pain for the rest of their lives. This is to stop them pecking each other out of boredom, although they still do it, pulling each others feathers out and mutilating themselves too.
Sometimes the weakest hen in the cage gets pecked to death by the stronger ones.
Often hens use corpses to lay their eggs on, and these eggs roll free and end up in YOUR supermarket!
This petition will be sent to the Prime Minister and the chairmen of ALL major supermarket chains, in an attempt to help stop them selling battery eggs.
Did you know that battery eggs are also used in almost ALL supermarket products like cakes, pasta, mayonnaise, and quiches? We will also campaign for supermarkets to replace these with FREE RANGE eggs!
IT SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL TO DO THIS TO SO MANY INNOCENT ANIMALS! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SIGNING!
***VISIT THE "CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO" LINK FOR SOME PICTURES OF THIS CRUEL BARBARITY***
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