The British Hen Welfare Trust announced that the organization has successfully saved the lives of 20 batteries hens, which have been relocated in a high-security prison for women.
The charity organization started its activity in April 2005, when it first developed strategies to take care of these creatures.
So far, its objectives are to fight animal cruelty and to find suitable shelters for approximately 16 million hens which are at this time caged all across the UK.
So far, representatives and volunteers from the company's 25 regional centers managed to provide a safer home for almost 60,000 hens, which otherwise faced the possibility of being slaughtered.
Jail seems to be a great alternative for these creatures, where officials state the fact that they will be used for therapeutic purposes.
Psychologists who work in such facilities reached the conclusion that plant rearing and taking care of animals are two kinds of activities that keep the people in jail happy and preoccupied.
"It is apt and extraordinary on so many levels that some of the prisoners will be able to take care of something as vulnerable as a battery hen that has had a restricted start in life, that has been kept, literally behind bars in a small cage without access to sunlight or fresh air. I truly believe in the therapeutic benefits of keeping animals and the value of being responsible for and caring for hens such as these," declared a spokesman of such an institution.
Therefore, it is safe to say that those 20 recently rescued batteries hens won't have a hard time adapting to the new living conditions provided by Holloway Prison.
Due to the organizations' active role, almost 700,000 British people are now fond of chicken and are now raising at least one in their backyards.
Their role is visible even is local economies, since their educational politics generated a greater support for farmers and food industry.
Raising hens has become a popular activity, since it has increased its notoriety by up to 80%, compared to the numbers from three years ago, achieving the most significant growth since the World War II period.
The British Hen Welfare Trust has also plans to educate the consumers, so they are able to select wisely products when they hit the grocery stores looking for mayonnaise, pasta, or other kind of technologically processed goods.
Some of the leading brand rely their entire business on animal cruelty and every client should be aware of this thing while he is filling his shopping cart.
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