Image by Ecoagriculture Partners via Flickr The welfare standards of meat (or broiler) chickens is under threat of further degradation because the government is currently deciding how to bring new EU legislation on chicken welfare into law in England. Your help is urgently needed to persuade the government to make the right choice for chickens. At current minimum industry standards, so many chickens are crowded into a shed each bird has less space than a sheet of A4 paper. It’s hard to walk or even flap their wings, and the birds often develop painful deformities. The new legislation could allow [...]