We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

HELP BAN THE HORROR OF BATTERY HENS !!!

Target: Peter Beatie, The member of state parliment for Queensland
Sponsor: Karla Baker
  • Signatures: 4,162
  • Goal: 2,000
  • Deadline: 3-14-2005
About 10 MILLION hens suffer HORRIFIC physical and mental trauma in traditional "battery" cages in Australia !!!

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Number Date Name Age Country Why I am signing this petition
4,167 2:46 pm PDT, Jul 4 greta malkotzoglou 32 Greece stop torture hens!
4,166 7:18 am PDT, Jun 4 Jesse L 17 United States I am totaly agianst the wide spread cruelty of laying hens and the way the government allows it
4,165 11:32 pm PDT, May 31 Elena D 22 Greece If animals are to be treated this way we shouldn't be breeding them at all
4,164 10:47 am PDT, May 26 Deborah Lorenne 39 United Kingdom The life of an animal should be respected to live a natural life. What right does any one have to control a animal to suffering that is vulnerable and weak. It must be abolished for good
4,163 9:56 am PDT, May 16 Anonymous 53 United Kingdom It is not natural for any animal to be confined in very small spaces. Tribal people have more respect for their quarry than people who live in towns and cities. It is unnecessary cruelty to animals who feel just as much pain as we humans do.
4,162 1:02 pm PDT, Apr 15 SARA MARKS 32 United Kingdom because its cruel.
4,161 5:52 am PDT, Apr 14 alessandro barracciu 23 Italy Stop cruelty !!
4,160 5:04 am PDT, Apr 14 Laura Tatti 21 Italy I'm against animal cruelty, I love animals, and I think they deserve love and protection.
4,159 2:42 pm PDT, Apr 6 Carla Cassia 24 United States It's Horrible
4,158 1:45 pm PDT, Apr 6 jaclyn Howie 0 United Kingdom I think its aweful, i cant imagine how their lives must be... its worse than hell i am sure and its all for human comsumption we as compassionate beings must step up and chage these animals lives!
4,157 12:06 pm PDT, Apr 6 Kayleigh Henshaw 18 United Kingdom because i'd like to see how humans cope being stuffed into a tiny cage with loads of other people! They wouldn't, therefore its unnecessary, and just mean!
4,156 7:22 am PDT, Apr 5 Fiona T 34 United Kingdom because farming of battery hens should be banned!
4,155 12:53 pm PDT, Apr 4 Deborah Cooper 44 United Kingdom Because I like to see happy hens walking around looking for food!
4,154 7:24 pm PDT, Apr 3 sarah cougle 0 Australia I have a petition for the same thing...just started http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savechookchook/index.html PLEASE SIGN
4,153 4:22 pm PDT, Apr 2 Gabriele Dessė 26 Italy cause I love animals and hate everyone hurts them
4,152 7:37 am PDT, Apr 1 Anonymous 0 United Kingdom I hate battery farming and i want it stopped
4,151 8:00 pm PDT, Mar 31 Jenny Vegan 31 United States Minor Outlying Islands I am strongly opposed to torture.
4,150 3:02 am PDT, Mar 30 avril kettle 55 United Kingdom It`s very cruel, no need for it.
4,149 2:03 am PDT, Mar 26 Anna Hickl 26 Germany For hens are intelligent and emotional animals that should be treated in a good way.
4,148 6:03 pm PDT, Mar 24 Anonymous 18 Italy save
4,147 11:44 pm PDT, Mar 23 William Harper 58 United States for a butterfly
4,146 6:14 pm PDT, Mar 23 Sandy Macdonald 61 Australia I am appalled at what I have read after doing research for a speech. I have always tried to buy free range eggs, but feel I need to do more.
4,145 7:23 am PDT, Mar 23 oana ichim 33 Romania primitivism of humans
4,144 6:56 am PDT, Mar 23 Sarah Panullo 36 United States because animals should not be treated this way. Profit should not come before the safety and comfort of a living being.
4,143 11:51 am PDT, Mar 22 Cher Isbell 34 United States because no animal deserves to be mistreated
4,142 11:01 am PDT, Mar 22 Dori Maschke 47 United States To help out.
4,141 10:05 am PDT, Mar 22 Jacqueline Conaway-Rush 18 United States Torture and abuse of any animal is horrible and needs to be stopped.
4,140 7:18 am PDT, Mar 22 Jaylena Greenfield 95 United States beacause I care about all life
4,139 6:54 am PDT, Mar 22 Virginia Schwartman 39 United States It needs to stop.
4,138 6:16 am PDT, Mar 22 Art Deco 44 United States disgusting
4,137 12:19 am PDT, Mar 22 Black Tiger Petersen 69 Canada Because battery cages and factory farming is an abuse
4,136 7:55 pm PDT, Mar 21 JOCELYNE ANNIE 57 Canada VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS !!
4,135 5:37 pm PDT, Mar 21 Samantha Szesciorka 26 United States It's a ridiculously cruel practice. Alternatives exist... use them!
4,134 4:43 pm PDT, Mar 21 Darlene Davis 46 United States This atrocity need to STOP
4,133 6:45 am PDT, Mar 21 Dawn Higgins 40 United States They deserve better treatment.
4,132 4:59 am PDT, Mar 21 Bea Brinkley 106 Australia Because I care for chickens, they are sentient beings and getting a very cruel deal.
4,131 6:07 am PDT, Mar 13 Stephen Briggs 15 Australia This is completely inhumane. Think of Animal Farm 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others' Humans may be intellectually superior but that does not mean we have the right to mutilate baby chickens along with several other digusting acts. What they are doing to these Hens is just not right. Eggs should be 'farmed' the traditional way without hurting the hens.
4,130 5:57 am PDT, Mar 13 JESS VERHOEFF 16 Australia I am AGAINST battery Hen Farming. It is WRONG. cruel, imhumane
4,129 2:46 pm PST, Feb 29 Lotte laustsen 27 Denmark on account of animal welfare issues
4,128 2:56 pm PST, Feb 27 Kenneth Lapointe 54 Canada I am against the practice of using battery cages for chickens.
4,127 8:10 pm PST, Feb 21 Marcy Morgan 38 United States This practice is abusive to these birds!
4,126 1:36 am PST, Feb 8 david flynn 0 United Kingdom chicken battery farming is cruel
4,125 6:11 am PST, Feb 1 kelly mawson 0 United Kingdom no living thing should suffer, ever. life is life, in any form.
4,124 10:15 am PST, Jan 31 Sally Horne 16 United Kingdom because keeping hens in such bad conditions is PURE EVIL!!!!!
4,122 3:55 pm PST, Jan 28 Jessica Carter 18 United Kingdom My ongoing personal resolution is to only eat meat bought from my local butcher, which I can guarantee has come from free range, humane, local farmers. Self-righteous, maybe, but nothing can justify the cruelty of battery farming.
4,121 3:36 am PST, Jan 13 leanne farrar 40 New Zealand All animals, have feelings, thoughts and emotions and deserve to be treated with kindness. couldnt look at video.
4,120 3:57 pm PST, Jan 9 Mark Edwards 48 Australia This treatment of animals is unacceptable in todays climate. Buy only free range animal products.
4,119 9:47 am PST, Jan 9 SEVERINE FONTAN 34 France Battery farming must come to an end, that's the minimum we can do for the so called "Butchery animals"...
4,118 8:58 am PST, Dec 31 Deb Carducci 37 United States I am appalled at what goes on in all types of slaughterhouses. There is nothing 'humane' about anything that goes on in these places of horror. My choice is clear, I hope by not eating meat I can save at least some animals from this fate.
4,117 12:07 pm PST, Dec 26 gillian forrest 28 United Kingdom unacceptable to treat any animals this way!
4,116 12:07 am PST, Dec 24 Hugues Deshayes 55 United Kingdom Morally unacceptable
4,115 6:13 am PST, Dec 10 Anonymous 17 United Kingdom because battery farming should be banned its digusting how these animals are being subjected to cruelty
4,114 9:38 am PST, Nov 27 anne romanow 52 United States factory farming in small pens without exercise and/or cutting beaks off is cruel and unnecessary. People want farming to be more ethical and compassionte for raising animals.
4,113 3:54 am PST, Nov 27 Lorna Smith 17 United Kingdom This is not necessary! Hens should be able to breed, move and be happy! And the males shouldn't have to be killed!
4,112 6:47 am PDT, Nov 3 Hell Jones 17 United Kingdom Battery hens are some of the most cruelly treated creatures, they deserve a better life. the abuse should end
4,111 10:09 am PDT, Oct 11 Anonymous 16 United Kingdom This is so wrong. Chickens are going through complete torture. Such pain I cannot imagine. Its sickening.
4,110 8:30 am PDT, Oct 9 Rachel Cann 15 United Kingdom I have seen a video on youtube about battery hens and it was terrible. I would never want to be a hen. Some of them were dead and other hens were standing on top of them. 9 hens were crammed into a small wire cage and the cages were pilled on top of each other. The hens at the bottom got all of the pooh landing on them and some hens got their heads stuck in the wire and got caught there and died. They don't stand on flooring instead they stand on metal wire which is the bottom of the cages. It is terrible what is happening and it needs to be stopped.
4,109 10:54 pm PDT, Oct 4 Jon McConnell 24 United States Because I believe that animals shouldnt be treated so cruel even if they are bred for food. They are still living things that feel pain.
4,108 10:05 pm PDT, Oct 4 Amanda Ellison 0 United States Battery Cages are the most brutal treatment I've ever seen on any living creature, and for what!? So we can have the comfort and convience of eating eggs! It is unimaginable how greatly these poor hens suffer (physically, mentally, and emotionally). I truely hope this bill passes!
4,107 2:34 am PDT, Sep 14 Yulia Gaiduch 15 New Zealand This is totally out of order! How would you feel to be treated like this!! Battery hen farming is totally disgusting, painful and completley un-neccesary! Free-range hens give better eggs anyway, so stop the horror!
4,106 12:13 pm PDT, Sep 1 Megan Dana 19 United States Because we should do anything and everything to stop chicken cruelty.
4,105 3:41 am PDT, Aug 31 sarah seth 14 Australia i think cruelty to animals is a nightmare. i myself am a full vegetarian and this is ont he top of my list of "get rid of's"
4,104 2:56 pm PDT, Aug 27 Anonymous 17 New Zealand Because battery hen farming is cruel and needless. IT SHOULD BE BANNED!!
4,103 4:48 pm PDT, Aug 26 Tamara McSpadden 15 Australia I am signing this petition because i have just watched a slide show on how these chickens are treated in cages it is cruel and should be stopped. I also own a chick at my school for about 3 months and it is a meat chicken sorry for all you people out there who eat chicken but to me its like eating my own pet i can not do it i would do anything to save my chicken or some one else even those who are in cages it is just cruel and it disgusts me here is the site i was looking at http://www.govegan.com.au/misc/batteryhens/batteryhens_01.htm please look
4,102 1:53 pm PDT, Aug 1 Athena Zlatkou 34 Greece Treating animals in such a way in the name of consumarism is a discgrace for the human race. People should be educated on what eating Fried Chicken really entails.
4,101 4:10 pm PDT, Jul 28 Gloria Jean Meyer 33 United States I am signing this petition because I know, from raising hens, that they cannot live humanely in any sort of factory farm, regardless of location.

HELP BAN THE HORROR OF BATTERY HENS !!!

The battery hens spend all there reproductive lives in tiny, empty, wire cages that are so small they cant move, just to suply eggs to shop shelves !
Its hard to explain just how appualling the conditions of the hens and there enviroment is until you've seen them in person or at least in pictures.

Australia has been fighting battery hens for years and years with still no change.

Im starting with Queensland and working my way to hopefully one day ban battery hens compleatly in Australia.

If your not from Australia you might think "well why should i care", but were not doing it for Australia, were doing it to stop this brutal method of farming ( that is happening in other countries too! ), for the animals and there rights and for humane justice,
In hopes to stop battery hens in other states and countries.

Queensland is a small start but with your help we can make a big difference and help the welfare of inorcent hens.

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