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(contracted; show full)*[[The Selfish Green]] - debate on the future of conservation
*[[Many Rivers to Cross]]
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==Sandbox==
===[[Egg (food)]]===


====Commercial egg farming====

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[[Vegan]]s, [[Lacto vegetarianism|lacto vegetarians]] and others concerned with [[animal welfare]] or [[animal rights]] issues choose not to eat eggs for various moral and ethical reasons.

Concerns includes the poor living conditions of battery hens, the killing of hens past the laying age and the slaughter of male chicks hatched from female laying hens.[http://www.vegsoc.org/info/laying.html][http://www.rspcanz.org.nz/campaigns/the_facts.html][http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodrin/poultry/utilisation.htm#_Toc9932138] 

(battery farm conditions, EU ruling)

[[Free range]] eggs are considered by some [[animal welfare]] proponents to be an acceptable substitute to battery farmed eggs. Questions on the actual living conditions of free range hens have been raised as there is no legal definition or regulations for eggs labeled as free range.

(debeaking, unproductive old hens, )

Laying hen strains differ from meat production strains due to modern selective breeding. As male birds of the laying strain do not lay eggs and are not suitable for meat production, they are killed at one to three years old.[http://www.vegsoc.org/info/laying.html#male]

====External links====
*[http://worldanimal.net/henlegislation.html Council of Europe and European Union legislation relevant to battery hens]
*[http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Chicken_Food_Safety_Focus/index.asp USDA fact sheet on chicken]
*[http://www.vegansociety.com/html/animals/exploitation/hens.php Hens and Eggs]