Criticism
This temporary starving of the hens is seen as inhumane and is the main point of objection by critics and opponents of the practice. The alternative most often employed is to slaughter the hens instead of molting them.
It is sometimes claimed that forced molting is an artifact of factory farming, but, like virtually all poultry practices, it predates the vertical integration of the poultry industry by decades. Former Head of the Poultry Science Department at the University of Maryland, Morley A. Jull prescribes a precise molting program in his 1938 book, Poultry Husbandry.
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