Chickens' Lib by Druce, Clare -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Prologue LONDON DAYS

Parliament Square How it all began To the East End The invasion Blood running in the gutters And Chickens’ Lib is born

OXFORDSHIRE DAYS

To the country Whitehall’s had enough ‘Them ministers is a cunning lot’ So what went wrong, down on the farm? Cruelty enshrined in law A breakthrough Man-made suffering A visual aid for Parliament The nuns’ story

and now to yorkshire

Violet caught red-handed Post script The Halifax Four Brainy birds The Church The good old days?

The campaign escalates

Customer choice Who is Mr Big? Granny agents Crossing the Pond Illegal systems The RSPCA and the scapegoat

The Queen and Goldenlay

Police support battery system Five Freedoms and a Convention A touch of arson Inside information

Funding the campaign

No worse than any other battery… Goldenlay hens make the Guardian A strange incident Starry patronage for Chickens’ Lib Bitten but unbowed Post post script

A cruel ‘solution’

A can of worms Bungled slaughter An ugly picture Down in the quarry Factory farming’s smallest victim Grey Girl A secretarial blunder Pity Leeds’ MAFF Sleuthing with Irene Poultry litter claims victims Not so clever …

Chickens and food–borne ills

A word of warning Half-starved (by design) The saga of the feet The shortest of lives Clinically obese humans Overseas links South Africa America Australia

Enter turkeys

Introducing Boyo Mr Gummer’s having none of it

Antibiotics – propping up a sick industry

A police visit Ducks on dry land The world’s largest flightless bird Turkeys again, and a cool reception Scientists prove suffering FAWC looks at turkeys Catching the birds

The sporting life

Chickens’ Lib to Farm Animal Welfare Network Hillside Animal Sanctuary A telling obituary

McLibel – the best free show in town

Nearly a controlled explosion Baby foods and school dinners – food for thought The battery cage ban at last?

Violet Spalding 1908-1999 Enriched cages – a gaping loophole

Outlawed in Europe MAFF to DEFRA The risks we take Police visit number three Pâté de foie gras Legislation for broilers

The Spanish connection

A question of survival? Straight talking So where’s the progress, after all these years? The Crown Prosecution Service Significant progress in legislation Why ‘necessary’ suffering?

Conclusion – to a journey without end References Acknowledgements