Fw: DawnWatch: NPR covers battery egg farm cruelty investigation 4/13/09

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Please read the alert below, s, and leave a comment on the feedback page. All info is below. This horrendous factory farm is in Maine.

 

 

 

 

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DawnWatch <newsDawnWatch: NPR covers battery egg farm cruelty investigation 4/13/09d2or3Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:00 PMThe animal advocacy group, Mercy for Animals, recently did an undercover

investigation at New England's largest egg factory farm. You'll find the

details of the investigation and shocking video at

www.mercyforanimals.org/maine-eggs. As a result of the investigation, the state

police and Maine Department of Agriculture raided the farm on April 1. There was

a lot of great local media coverage, the highlights of which you'll find at

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/maine-eggs/updates.asp

Yesterday, Monday April 11, the story went national as it was covered on the

National Public Radio show "All Things Considered." Susan Sharon reports:

"Several dozen barns, the length of two football fields each, stacked with

rows of cages of reddish-brown hens, about 80,000 of them to a barn. Each file

cabinet-sized metal cage contains four or five birds, and each bird has less

space than a single sheet of letter-sized paper on which to live the rest of her

two-year life.

"She can't spread her wings or move about, but here at the former

DeCoster Egg Farm in Turner, Maine, confinement is not the only concern of

animal-rights activists."

We hear from Mercy for Animals' Nathan Runkle: "Our investigator

documented birds left to suffer from untreated broken bones and infections....

Workers violently grabbing birds by their necks, swinging them around, tossing

them aside and then kicking them into manure pits."

You can listen to the brief story on line at: http://tinyurl.com/cdnn3b

Please check it out, and email it to your friends. Stations count hits and

emails for their stories. You can comment at the bottom of the web page where others will read of your

compassionate concerns. Most importantly, please send your thanks to reporter

Susan Sharon and the All Things Considered by leaving a comment on the feedback

page at http://tinyurl.com/c2x4r8 . Positive feedback for coverage of animal

issues encourages more coverage in the future. Yours and the animals',

Karen Dawn

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