Media Release
For Immediate Release
Cramped, squashed and far from happy.
Human ‘chickens’ cram into small lift space to highlight
shocking living conditions within poultry industry
Inside the World Poultry Congress today, a lift filled with cramped Animal Liberation
members dressed as chickens will open to show congress-goers the real overcrowded
conditions endured by battery-caged, barn-laying, and broiler chickens in Australia’s
conventional farms.
Time: 10.30am
Date: Friday 4th June
Location: Brisbane Convention Centre, Foyer Level, next to Registration desk, Lift from Carpark 2
While battery chickens are given less room than an A4 piece of paper to spend their entire lives, broiler
chickens don’t fair any better. The Code of Practice for Domestic Poultry, 4th Ed. states a maximum space
allowance for broiler chickens at 40kg/m² which is equivalent to 16-18 birds per m². Cheap chicken meat
and eggs come at an enormous cost to the animals. Often birds will starve to death due to physical ailments
leaving them unable to reach food or water, they will die slowly whilst still being squashed and trampled
upon by fellow inmates.
The maximum stocking density for certified free range chickens is 30% lower than conventional broiler
chickens at 28kgs/m². That is still a density of about 11-13 birds per m², which is actually higher than the
new space allowances for caged hens.
Animal Liberation spokesperson, Jacqueline Dalziell says, “The World Poultry Congress should direct more
of its attention on addressing the many existing welfare problems within the poultry industry. The congress
has been suspiciously silent on improving space allowances as well as creating an environment which
prevents such enormous numbers of injury, disease and suffering of chickens.
Unfortunately, as per any animal abuse industry, the focus has been on methods to increase chicken
production and hence industry profits, rather than animal welfare.
Only 1 out of the 15 keynote speakers for the congress will be discussing not only welfare, but the
environment as well, it just goes to show the low priority given to chickens within chicken industry”.
Photo opportunity of lift opening spilling out human ‘chickens’ at World Poultry Congress.
For further information please contact Jacqueline Dalziell on 0419 262 136
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