tailieunhanh - PRISONED CHICKENS POISONED EGGS AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE MODERN POULTRY INDUSTRY

Small-scale producers seek to meet the financial needs of their households and businesses while simultaneously addressing the demands from the marketplace. Many small-scale poultry producers have been successful at direct marketing. Many have sought to grow their businesses to fill a larger market niche by offering their chickens to restaurants or retail stores. Most find that they are excluded from mainstream poultry processing facilities, distributors and marketing operations because they tend to be controlled by large-scale, industrial corporations. The highly integrated nature of the poultry industry in the . means that growth for small, independent producers. | Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry Karen Davis . Book Publishing Company Summertown Tennessee Book Publishing Company . Box 99 Summertown Tennessee 1-800-695-2241 1996 Karen Davis All rights reserved Cover design by Warren Jefferson ISBN 1-57067-032-3 999897 432 Davis Karen 1944- Prisoned chickens poisoned eggs an inside look at the modern poultry industry Karen Davis p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57067-032-3 1. Chickens. 2. Chickens--Diseases. 3. Eggs--Production. 4. Chicken industry. 5. Egg trade. I. Title. 1996 179 .3--dc20 96-45937 CIP Karen Davis is the founder and president of United Poultry Concerns an international non-profit organization addressing the treatment of poultry in food production science education entertainment and human companionship situations. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes directly to funding the work of this organization. In the tradition of Jeremy Rifkin s Beyond Beef Karen Davis has taken on the poultry industry in her thoroughly researched analysis of the gruesome dirty and brutal lives of factory-farmed chickens. Publishers Weekly Davis documents the inhumane conditions of factory farming explicitly detailing the lives and deaths of battery hens raised in tiered brooding trays and of broiler chickens . . . Bolstered by unyeilding conviction Davis argues her case with passion. Booklist Table of Contents Prologue .5 Introduction .8 Chapter 1 Early History Beginning of the Modern Factory Farm Reactions to the Poultry Machine Chapter 2 The Birth and Family Life of Chickens .25 When Living Creatures Become Units School Hatching Projects The Egg and Chick Historical Symbols of Nature and Rebirth Easter Egg Hunt and Egg Gathering The Hen as a Symbol of Motherhood Maternal Instincts of the Domestic Hen Why Roosters Crow Relationship Between the Rooster and the Hen Bravery of Chickens Formation and Laying of the Egg .