Animal Welfare Issues and Destructive Practices in Poultry Farming Including Debeaking, Culling, Use of Growth Hormones, and Avian Influenza (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Animal welfare groups have frequently criticized the poultry industry for engaging in practices which they believe to be inhumane. Animal rights advocates object to killing chickens for food, the factory farm conditions under which they are raised, methods of transport, and slaughter. This book studies various animal welfare issues associated with poultry farming and destructive practices risky to humans including debeaking, culling, ethical consumerism, use of growth hormones, and risk of avian influenza. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.