the Battery Hen Welfare Trust in the news

The Battery Hen Welfare Trust was on BBC 1 'Breakfast' today (1st August) - they want people to give homes to former battery hens. Jane Howorth set up the charity in 2004 with a van; the Trust now has a network of 18 offices and re-homing unwanted battery hens has become a major operation. Nineteen million British battery (egg-laying) hens will go from their cages to be slaughtered this year, when they are no longer productive. The Battery Hen Welfare Trust saves some of these hens and re-homes them as pets in families with gardens.
The BHWT works within the factory farming system and with farmers, for the welfare of battery hens.
To read the report online, go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7534395.stm
For more information on the Trust or how to adopt rescued battery hens, go to www.bhwt.org.uk/

Date: 2008-08-01

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