Proverbs 12:10

"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast:
but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."


New Yorker writer Michael Specter

On his first visit to a chicken farm:

"I was almost knocked to the ground by the overpowering smell
of feces and ammonia. My eyes burned and so did my lungs, and I could neither see nor breathe….There must have been thirty thousand chickens sitting silently on the floor in front of me. They didn’t move, didn’t cluck. They were almost like statues of chickens, living in nearly total darkness, and they would spend every minute of their six-week lives that way."

—Michael Specter, New Yorker, April 14, 2003.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Egg Farm Investigation (video)

Inside an Egg Factory Farm
From November 30 to December 9, 2005, an investigator affiliated with Compassion Over Killing worked undercover at Esbenshade Farms, one of the nation’s top egg producers, located in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. While there, he documented appalling conditions for hundreds of thousands of hens including:
  • birds overcrowded in wire cages so small, they cannot spread their wings,
  • hens left to suffer from untreated illnesses or injuries,
  • birds with their wings, legs, or feet entangled in the wires of cages, unable to access food or water,
  • injured or dying birds removed from their cages and left in the aisles without access to food or water,
  • birds impaled on the wires of the cages with many found already dead as a result of the painful immobilization, and
  • hens living in cages amongst decomposing bodies of other birds.


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