Wall mural on 'cruel' cage-hen farming to come up in city

Highlighting the "cruelty" inflicted on hens during battery-caged farming, a street artist will create a gigantic mural in the national capital tomorrow.
Amitabh Kumar's work is part of Humane Society International-India's campaign to rally support for ending battery cages for laying hens.
In this larger-than-life street art, Kumar will attempt to reverse the "claustrophobic" world of battery farms, where the beholder becomes imprisoned by the gaze of the hen, getting a sense of what it is like to be a confined chicken.
HSI India said that in 2016, over 80 billion eggs were produced in India in intensely confined conditions.

"Most live in small, barren wire cages with space less than an A4 sheet of paper and a typical egg farm contains thousands of cages.
"The battery cages are so small that the hens are unable to spread their wings without touching the sides of the cage or other hens," it said.
Battery cages prevent nearly all forms of natural behaviour including perching and roosting, scratching and foraging, comfort behaviour and exploring, it added.