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Right now, thousands of hens are suffering inside Rhode Island battery-egg farms. They are confined so tightly that they can’t even stretch their wings. They are forced to stand day and night on sloping wire mesh floors that painfully cut into their feet, and many suffer from painful blood blisters that never heal — but a new bill could stop this!

In 2012, Rhode Island lawmakers passed legislation to protect veal calves and pregnant sows from extreme confinement. Now, H.6023 has been introduced to extend that protection to egg-laying hens in battery farms. We must act now to help thousands of hens. Their well-being depends on us.

Representative Patricia Serpa of Rhode Island states that this is also a matter of protecting public health. “Battery cages are unclean, unhealthy, and don’t allow the hens room,” Serpa said. “They defecate on each other and literally peck one another to death. It’s unsanitary.”

What YOU Can Do

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