What ducks endure When you think of a duck, most likely the
image in your mind would be of one on water. Children are told
that ducks live near bodies of water because they spend a lot of
time on it. According to zoologist Juliet Gellatley, ducks spend
80% of their time on water since they play, swim and feed on it.
So important is water for ducks that they can go blind if they
are unable to rinse their eyes with it. God crated them to be on
In spite of our knowledge about what ducks need and how they
behave, most of the 18 million ducks raised for meat in the U.K.
have no access to water for bathing and 90% of them are
intensively confined. A report by the animal protection
organization Viva! states that the industry keeps 10,000 birds
to a shed with a stock density of about eight birds per square
meter (10.8 square feet). According to producers, who have no
regard for the lives of these animals, say that such access to
water would spread disease. To us, Christians, to deprive an
animal of an essential God-g