The Private Life of Chickens

Understand chicken and their behaviour in a range of different conditions: BBC Scotland

60 min

Founder, United Poultry Concerns

I am a battery hen. I live in a cage so small I cannot stretch my wings. I am forced to stand night and day on a sloping wire mesh floor that painfully cuts into my feet. The cage walls tear my feathers, forming blood blisters that never heal.

Michael Specter

Writer, New Yorker

I was almost knocked to the ground by the overpowering smell of feces and ammonia. My eyes burned and so did my lungs, and I could neither see nor breathe.

Julie O'Neill

Photographer, Blogger

To eat an animal meant that someone had to be killed, but to eat the by products of an animal required that someone had to live a long hard life as a slave. The mothers that produce milk and eggs for us have drawn out lives filled with entrapment, mutilation and rape.

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Glass Walls

Investigations | 10 min

A video exposé revealing what happens to animals raised for meat, eggs and dairy products.

Undercover Investigation at Hy-Line Hatchery

Investigations | 4 min

A Mercy for Animals investigation that captures the terrifying 1st day of a chicks life in assembly lines of modern day hatcheries

Chicken

Short films | 8 min

A short animated video depicting the life of chicken: Sharkfinn studios

45 Days- The Life and Death of a Broiler Chicken

Short films | 12 min

Investigative footage of broiler farms by COK, capturing the life of chicken from hatching and factory-farm life to slaughter and packaging.

The emotional world of farm animals

Full length documentary | 52 min

A delightful documentary for viewers of all ages, about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are too often just viewed as food.

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