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Designing a chicken welfare experiment

In this lesson students will examine the reasons for selective breeding of chickens for meat and learn how extreme selection for specific traits can cause unnecessary suffering to the chicken. Ideally, they should have completed the lesson 'intensive farming and selective breeding - an ethical debate' beforehand.

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Intensive farming and selective breeding - an ethical debate

"This lesson examines the welfare and ethical issues concerned with rearing chickens for meat."

Farm animal senses

In this lesson, pupils will consider how people and farm animals use their senses.

Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales

Help children to learn about how food is produced, how red meat can be part of a healthy balanced diet, encourage skills in cooking, and discuss the traceability and sustainability of food.