Some one donated $50,000 to a chicken rescue society, which is silly enough:

Their egg-laying days behind them, some 1,200 Northern California chickens are heading for a cozy retirement on the East Coast, where they will live outside of cages and have plenty of room to spread their wings.
The Sacramento Bee reports that an anonymous $50,000 US donation is funding Operation Chicken Airlift …

But then they tried to make the story more dramatic by adding the following statement:

Laying hens are generally too lean for human consumption and are usually slaughtered after they stop providing eggs.

Wow, it really is sad that the poor chickens are slaughtered rather than eaten when their egg-laying days are done. Eating them would be way more humane. And tasty.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/09/05/chickens-retirement.html