battery cages
Cramped poultry confinement
Battery cages are small wire enclosures used in industrial egg production, stacked in rows to house laying hens at high density.
The term carries critical connotations—animal welfare advocates use it to highlight cramped conditions that restrict natural movement and behavior: Several states have banned battery cages for egg-laying hens.
- wireThin metallic conductor
- debeakingPartial bill removal
- chickensDomestic fowl for eggs
- confinementState of being restricted
- eggReproductive cell in shell
laying hens · poultry · crowd · enriched · cage free · free range · animal welfare · animal rights · mechanization · coops · barren · ammonia · intensive farming · factory farm · industrial agriculture · enclosure · housing · hen house
- Factory Farmingfactory farms, feedlots, hog farms, poultry farms, intensive farming
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- eggschicken egg, scrambled eggs, duck egg, Easter egg, fried eggs
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- animal welfareanimal rights, humane societies, humane treatment, shelters, animal ethics
- farm problemssoil erosion, soil depletion, water pollution, fertilizer runoff, overgrazing
battery cagessustainable agriculture
Farming preserving long-term productivity
organic farming · regenerative farming · ethical farming · small-scale farming · traditional farming
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