Debeaked

Pheasants wear plastic blinders on their beaks for the same reason battery hens are debeaked: so they so won't attack each other in the crowded conditions. ❋ Martha Rosenberg (2011)

Free range organic chicken is the last choice for me ... they start to cannibalize eachother because they're not debeaked, and then are denied antibiotics ... cruel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Layer hen life on large scale intensive farms is ethically problematic right now if you think its problematic for a bird to have the size of a piece of paper as its "space" most of its life, to be debeaked, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those who argue that moving animals around for human benefits or feeding hamsters to ferrets to train the ferrets to hunt when they are released often employ the utilitarian argument, as do those who feel comfortable eating formerly "free-ranging chickens" but not chickens who've been brutally debeaked and imprisoned in inhumane battery cages. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once your tentacles have been debeaked, you can toss them back into the fresh water and concentrate on slicing the caps which look a bit too much like condoms if left whole into the familiar circular shape of fried calamari. ❋ Steve “Buckshot” Seabury (2010)

Free range organic chicken is the last choice for me... they start to cannibalize eachother because they're not debeaked, and then are denied antibiotics... cruel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The facility is "very similar to a chicken or turkey farm," site superintendent Ron Willmore told the Pantagraph in 2004 -- pheasants wear plastic blinders on their beaks to keep from attacking each other like debeaked battery hens -- "except for what happens to them." ❋ Unknown (2008)

They had to be debeaked because otherwise they would have pecked each other to death from this stressful existence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After being debeaked the chickens usually return to eating within just a few minutes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I grew up on a poultry farm and actually debeaked chickens for hire. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Foie gras isn't any more disgusting than a Purdue chicken that's pumped up with antibiotics and debeaked before it's killed. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

The cost of the ticket was $8 (not bad) but I only watched $3 worth because my eyes were shut in horror from seeing live cows split open amd cute chicks debeaked ... ❋ Homesick Texan (2006)

On a hot, windy day in May, Liz and Garrett Perry of Waterloo, WI were disposing of scrap lumber at the Deer Track Park landfill near Interstate 94 when a featherless, debeaked hen limped in front of their pickup truck. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Although it uses deplorable techniques and often chooses inane issues to fight, it is commendable that it has brought attention to the plight of chickens that are debeaked in order to live their short lives in squalor. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Can a chicken that's debeaked or allowed minimal access to the outdoors be deemed organic? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hens in battery cages are debeaked and not able to spread their wings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The doctor of the lab has debeaked one of the head crabs, making a pet out of one of the most dangerous aliens to infest the planet. ❋ Unknown (2009)