Broad majority in Danish parliament in favour of 'turbo chicken' ban
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Denmark's Minister for Nature and Animal Welfare, Christian Rabjerg Madsen, wants to ban turbo chickens. These birds are raised with only three hours of darkness a day. They are fattened until they can no longer walk.
'Turbo chickens', chickens raised with as little as three hours a day of darkness and fattened to the extent that they can no longer walk, should be banned, according to Denmark's Minister for Nature and Animal Welfare, Christian Rabjerg Madsen.