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Chickens

Alarm over battery cage cruelty met with stonewalling while 95% of SA’s laying hens suffer

Our Burning Planet

Alarm over battery cage cruelty met with stonewalling while 95% of SA’s laying hens suffer

By Francesca de Gasparis and Amy P Wilson

NSPCA uncovers cannibalism and mass starvation at government-funded Daybreak poultry farms

South Africa

NSPCA uncovers cannibalism and mass starvation at government-funded Daybreak poultry farms

By Don Pinnock

Chicken back on the festive menu as poultry industry ‘well’ on its way to avian flu recovery

Business Maverick

Chicken back on the festive menu as poultry industry ‘well’ on its way to avian flu recovery

By Suné Payne

On world egg day spare a thought for the crap life of the battery chicken who laid it

South Africa

On world egg day spare a thought for the crap life of the battery chicken who laid it

By Don Pinnock

Claims eggs-aggerated: Why the avian flu egg warning is fake news

Business Maverick

Claims eggs-aggerated: Why the avian flu egg warning is fake news

By Estelle Ellis

Eat like a bird: Rolling blackouts and rise in feed costs expected to strip 90% off Astral’s H1 earnings

Business Maverick

Eat like a bird: Rolling blackouts and rise in feed costs expected to strip 90% off Astral’s H1 earnings

By Georgina Crouth

Cage-free eggs – good for the chicken and safer for you

South Africa

Cage-free eggs – good for the chicken and safer for you

By Francesca de Gasparis

Newsdeck

Ritual chicken finds good luck after thrown into sea at Port Shepstone

By News24

Op-Ed: Football, chickens and conspiracy theories

World

Op-Ed: Football, chickens and conspiracy theories

By J Brooks Spector