Guest guest Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 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. In memory of my sweet old man, Caesar D. (April 1995-Jan. 6, 2009): "They are gone from our sight...but never our memory, gone from our hearing...but never our hearts, gone from our touch...but their presence is felt, and the love that they gave us never departs."--- On Tue, 4/14/09, DawnWatch <news wrote: 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 (DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. You may forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts if you do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch in the title and include this parenthesized tag line. If somebody forwards DawnWatch alerts to you, which you enjoy, please help the list grow by signing up. It is free.) Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com to read reviews and see a fun celeb-studded video and an NBC news piece on Karen Dawn's new book, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals," which was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the "Best Books of 2008." To discontinue DawnWatch alerts go to http://www.DawnWatch.com/nothanks.php ------- You are d to DawnWatch using the following address: d2or3 Tue Apr 14 14:49:32 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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