@rogy Said 
For example, in the most recent edition (April 8, 2009), the following story appears:
1. ABUSE ALLEGED AT NEW ENGLAND?S LARGEST EGG FARM
State police and Maine Department of Agriculture officials raided an egg facility known as Maine Contract Farming and Quality Egg of New England on April 1st, after Mercy for Animals (MFA) filed a complaint for civil and criminal charges to be brought against the facility and workers there. An MFA investigator allegedly documented animal abuse at the facility from mid-December to February. ?It really indicated to us that there appeared to be some very deplorable and egregious animal welfare violations over there,? state veterinarian Don Hoenig said of the documentation, which included: supervisors and other workers kicking live hens into manure pits, holes in cage floors large enough for hens to fall into the pits below, hens with body parts stuck in caging including some 150 who were unable to access food or water, cages with decomposed bodies and rotting eggs, inhumanely killed hens and live hens in the garbage (see: https://tinyurl.com/cf2gaa ).
The general problem with this sort of recitation is that although it purports to be a statement of facts, it carries an implicit normative message: that there is some difference between the Maine facility, which involves ?abuse,? and other intensive egg operations. The reality is that there may be small differences but the treatment of all of the hens in the egg industry is properly characterized as nothing short of torture.
https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/?p=443
I wonder the abuse noted above. I doubt that the owners would harm their bottom line to the extent as noted!
Apr 11, 2009 @ 23:42:22
