Egg Farmers and Humane Society

Durham Region egg farmers are in the hot seat with the Humane Society International (HSI).

In an article in the The Oshawa Express, Katie Strachan writes: "Although there have been no direct complaints against farmers of Durham region, according to Nancy Rutherford, Liaison of the Durham Planning Committee, the HSI is concerned that farmers are keeping egg-laying hens in battery cages. A battery cage, according to the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, is a 16 by 18-inch cage that houses 4 to 6 hens, which prevents them from displaying natural behaviours. Hubert Schillings, owner of White Feather Farms in Oshawa, says, “These people (the HSI) want no animal agriculture at all.” Schillings is a second-generation egg farmer, who stands on the Provincial Egg Marketing Board as well as the Durham Agriculture Advisory Committee."

Read article in Oshawa Express