Imagine your legs burning. Imagine your skin riddled with sores. Imagine laying in your own faeces and urine but you're so heavy you can barely stand.
This is the reality for millions of chickens in the UK - it's called hock burn.
It happens when a chicken is raised in filthy, crowded conditions. Day by day, the excrement of the thousands of crowded birds builds up on the floor, and the ammonia in their urine and faeces literally burns their skin...causing a chemical burn.
Open Cages has published a report inspecting hundreds of whole chickens sold in Lidl. And the results were SHOCKING: 74% of the whole chickens examined were affected by hock burn, a skin disease that is a clear sign of animal suffering.
For more than a year, organisations around the world have campaigned for Lidl to improve the lives of the hundreds of millions of chickens living in misery before they reach the shelves.
These findings prove that Lidl must take immediate action. Lidl must sign the Better Chicken Commitment which guarantees higher standards and improves the living conditions of the chickens raised by their suppliers.
Hundreds of companies have signed the BCC, including Lidl in France. Please join us today in calling on Lidl to do the same in the UK!
Help us spread the word.
Leave a polite comment on Lidl's social media demanding improvements for chickens. Ask them to sign the Better Chicken Commitment!
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Thank you.
Open Cages, on behalf of Chris Packham