4a Kasprzaka Street,
Poznan,
Poland,
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10th January 2007
The Editor,
St Ives Times and Echo,
High Street,
St Ives,
Cornwall
TR26 1RS
Dear Sir,
I am writing to protest about the way hens are treated in many parts of Europe.
Hens are kept in very small and tight cages or ‘batteries’. Often, there are five or six chickens in one birdcage. Hens don’t have suitable weight. They are too fat, because they can’t move. This birds don’t have ability for life in accord with their nature and instinct. The result is that hens can’t flap their wings or clean their feathers. The most important thing are virus illnesses. In small farms hens more easily could be infected. Probably, hens bred in ‘batteries’ are weaker and less healthy.
I think we should all try to buy free-range eggs, not eggs from battery hens.
Yours faithfully,
Paulina Stobinska
Ms Paulina Stobińska