ALV have launched a powerful new slide presentation to help battery hens and inspire action to stop a proposed new egg factory. Please watch and widely circulate this appeal!

Your objections are urgently needed to help stop a new mega battery hen factory near Melbourne. A planning permit is now before the City of Casey to build a mega battery hen factory farm in Tooradin, an hours drive from Melbourne's CBD. Over 300,000 hens will never ever set foot on the ground or see the light of day. This mega hen concentration camp is proposed to be built on the South Gippsland Highway on land abutting the Tooradin township, so there is widespread local opposition to it - mainly based on odour and noise.

The development includes five huge sheds, each holding 50,000 battery hens in cages four tiers high, and three sheds for rearing the chicks with 17,000 babies in cages three tiers high. The property will also incorporate 40 huge silos, a total of 91 ventilation fans in the sheds, and a shop-front on the South Gippsland Highway, all adding to what will be a cruel monstrosity and noxious smell on one of Victoria's popular tourist highways.

The Local Council is currently considering the permit application and a decision has been postponed until a report from the EPA regarding odour and an environmental risk assessment is carried out. Council are split 50/50 over this proposal.

In order for further objections to be considered in Council's next report they must be received by the Planning Department no later than 10 July (but objections after this date will also be noted). Please object to this proposal today and let the Council know we do not want this horrific cruelty in our community. Please forward a copy of your objection after you've sent it to Council to patty@alv.org.au so we can keep a track of how many objections they are receiving. Thanks so much!