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Will Durrant

Carrying chickens by legs causes them pain, Green Party leader warns

The regulations set out that farmers will be able to catch and carry turkeys weighing 5kg or less and chickens by both legs, but not by one leg (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

Carrying chickens by their legs “causes injury, pain and unnecessary distress”, Adrian Ramsay has warned in a bid to block a law change.

The Government has planned to overturn an EU ban on catching and carrying poultry by their legs.

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