About 756 million chickens are raised for meat and eggs in Canada each year. Produced in factories like mere things, they live short, nightmarish lives. Do you know where your food comes from?

See stages of the slaughter process and learn how many chickens are killed each minute.

See an example of an enriched environment that lets chickens engage in natural behaviors.

See why birds may freeze during transport or get their wings broken during loading.

90% of egg laying hens in Canada live packed into rows of filthy "battery" cages. Forced to lay 20 times more eggs than their wild relatives, hens suffer severe injuries. After just 1 year of laying eggs, when aggressive egg production declines, the "spent" hens are killed.

Raised in crowded, dark barns, meat chickens first see sunlight on the way to slaughter. Many die en route. Birds used for breeding live for about 1 year and endure stress, confinement, and deprivation. Their offspring is killed for meat at just over 1 month of age.

In both magnitude and severity, [chicken production is] the single most severe example of man’s inhumanity to another sentient animal.

In the news

Loblaw, Metro, Sobey's and Walmart Canada, Canada's four largest food retailers under the Retail Council of Canada umbrella, made a key announcement which will greatly improve conditions for Canada's laying hens: The grocers committed to not purchasing any eggs from hens kept in cages after the end of 2025.

McDonald's has announced a ten-year timeline to switch to cage-free eggs at its Canadian and U.S. supply chains. Currently the two supply chains use more than two billion eggs from caged hens. The switch will improve life for nearly eight million animals per year. McDonald's has already implemented a similar policy in other parts of the world, including Europe.

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