Jamie’s Fowl Dinners has prompted a lot of people to ask how they can help improve the lives of layer and meat chickens.

TAKE ACTION now

• Don’t buy cage eggs! If more humanely produced eggs aren’t available in your local store, ask the store manager to start stocking the alternatives.
• Don’t just buy the cheapest chicken - look for the certified free range or organic label.
• Lobby your local restaurants and cafes to only use certified free range or barn-laid eggs as well as higher welfare chicken.
• Make your voice heard! Write to the Australian Government Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, your State or Territory Primary Industry / Agriculture Minister, your local MP and to local newspapers. Express your anger and opposition to cruelty in the farming industries.
• Send a battery hen awareness e-card!

Layer hens

Help the RSPCA get hens out of cages

The welfare of the battery-caged layer hen is the most compromised of all farm animals. In Australia, millions of battery hens are housed in conditions that would be unacceptable for any other species of livestock.

Click here to find out more about what it means to be one of the 11.6 million battery-caged hens in Australia.

Meat chickens

Make an informed decision at the supermarket

The vast majority of meat chickens (broilers) are farmed intensively in sheds. The scale of this industry in Australia is vast, with over 450 million chickens slaughtered every year.

Click here to learn more about animal welfare in the meat chicken industry.