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debeaking
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debeaking
removal of part of the beak, usually the front third of the upper beak, of domestic fowls as a prevention against cannibalism in birds in intensive housing. See also cannibalism.
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But they don't and most of us can distance ourselves quite nicely from the gory reality of meat production: the castration of male animals; slaughter of newborn calves born to milking cows; de-beaking of battery chickens, crammed into tiny cages; sows 'shackled' in farrowing crates; and the final bloody business of slaughter.
Full marks for giving Marcus the chop by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Farmed animals are also subjected to painful mutilations--such as castration, tail docking, de-beaking, and branding--all without anesthesia.
The gay case for animal rights by Runkle, Nathan / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Peter Stevenson of CIWF says: `Tail-biting by pigs and feather-pecking by hens should be prevented not by slicing off pigs' tails and de-beaking hens but by keeping them in decent conditions.
Anti-mutilation campaign (Compassion in World Farming) by New Internationalist
 
 
 
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