{"id":1070,"date":"2011-12-29T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2012-01-02T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:00:51","slug":"the-last-battery-hen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"The last battery hen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2011\/dec\/29\/last-battery-hen-home-liberty\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last_battery_hen-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jane Howorth from the British Hen Welfare Trust with the newly liberated Liberty. Photograph: Matt Cardy\/Getty Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last_battery_hen-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last_battery_hen.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a cute story providing publicity for one of my favourite charities &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhwt.org.uk\/cms\/index.php\/\">The British Hen Welfare Trust<\/a> &#8211; but I don&#8217;t think an extra 200 square centimetres per bird, which is about the area of two beermats, makes much difference.  Buying organic, or at least free range, is still the only way forward.  A caged hen, even with a bit more space, is always prevented from carrying out her full set of natural behaviours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a cute story providing publicity for one of my favourite charities &#8211; The British Hen Welfare Trust &#8211; but I don&#8217;t think an extra 200 square centimetres per bird, which is about the area of two beermats, makes much difference. Buying organic, or at least free range, is still the only way forward. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}