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Do Chickens Know They're Conscious? The Science That Changed Everything.
A rooster looked into a mirror. Scientists say he knew it was him. New research from Ruhr University Bochum confirms what the egg industry has spent decades hoping you wouldn't find out: the bird in your breakfast carton can count, show empathy, and communicate with her chicks before they hatch. Here's what the science proves — and why understanding it makes the cage worse, not better.
Robin - Rescued From The Dead
This post documents the rescue from a plastic trash bag of a “dead” chicken – a baby rooster – who was slaughtered during the ritual of Kaporos in Brooklyn, New York last fall along with thousands of other chickens.
Anonymous Memoir of a Battery Caged Chicken
My eyes are shut. I strain to open them a little but the burning sensation forces them closed again. Perhaps it is better they are shut. When I open them I see things I don’t want to.
Dr. Crow's Bird Show
We all know the eggspression: What came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
Gerri's Story
“Saving Gerri was, hands down, the most humbling and inspiring thing I’ve ever done in my life”. - Georgia Rae Laidlaw Brown
The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
We have decided to publish, in it’s entirety, The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (“CDC'“). What is this declaration and what does it mean?
Sarah's Story
It's perhaps surprising that many people don't consider this question very often - perhaps because the suffering that exists in the egg industry is so hidden from us . . .
Learning How to Speak Bird
Did you know that in this very moment, there are tens of billions of birds held in captivity?
British Columbia Hens Rescued
Earlier this year we conducted an interview with Jeff Regear, an animal rights activist, who along with several colleagues documented unspeakable cruelty on several egg farms in British Columbia, Canada.