Press Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:21:30 -0800 From: Press Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Animal Liberation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Press Office List- Activists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Press Office List- Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [animallibpress] 102 hens rescued from Shepherd's Egg Farm, Spanish Fork, UT
[Note: Photos (click here) and video of the below raid are available by
contacting the North American Animal Liberation Press Office.]
Received anonymously
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
On the night of Thursday November 1st, the Animal Liberation Front entered a
shed at Shepherd's Egg Farm near Spanish Fork, Utah to liberate as many hens as
possible from this living hell.
In this single shed out of several, we saw literally tens of thousands of hens
suffering in conditions even worse than we imagined. Words cannot sufficiently
capture this nightmare. They were so crowded in battery cages they could hardly
move at all, let alone spread their wings. They all had significant feather
loss from struggling to get through the wire cages to escape for their lives.
Many birds had their heads or wings stuck in the wires of their cages, and were
left to die because they could not reach any food or water. Their beaks had
been mutilated by factory workers. Everyday they must breathe in the
overwhelming and disgusting stench from the mountains of manure below their
cages. It should be no surprise that none of these birds receive one bit of
veterinary care for their numerous injuries and diseases.There was a hole in
the floor of the farm for workers to throw dead birds into a garbage can below
(see footage). While the view inside Shepherd's Eggs was
gruesome, it is in no way unique. These cruelties can be found in all modern
egg farms, including so-called "free range" facilities.
We moved quickly to remove as many birds as we could. We knew that Shepherd's
Eggs cared so little about their birds that they would likely not even notice
that they were gone. We took one or two from each cage, so the remaining
chickens would have a little more room. The exploiters will try to scare
consumers out of supporting this liberation by saying we increased a risk of
some sort of biological contamination. This is a lie. We took every possible
precaution to ensure we wouldn't harm the hens or ourselves, including being
covered head to toe with all of the necessary bio-safety gear.
Altogether we rescued 102 hens. All hens received veterinary care and were
placed in loving homes. They ran around their new homes with joy, appreciative
of their first experience of freedom. None were released into the wild. In
their new homes they all have access to the outdoors. They can all breathe in
fresh air. They are able to dust bathe and scratch the soil, instead of metal
wires. They will all live out their full lifespan here instead of being killed
when no longer profitable. In other words, these chickens can finally live like
chickens.
All sentient animals, like these chickens, will always suffer as long as they
are seen as nothing more than objects whose exploitation leads to increased
profits and cheaper food. The only solution is to simply stop buying eggs and
other animal products. Less than 1% of the hens at Shepherd's Eggs could be
rescued today. It's up to consumers to save the other 99%.
Until consumers become responsible and stop paying the exploiters, you can
count on the ALF to continue hurting their profits directly through property
destruction and other forms of economic sabotage. Around the world the ALF is
making progress and saving lives. This action is dedicated to all animal
liberation prisoners including Barry Horne. Barry died six years ago today on a
hunger strike. He would still be alive today if it wasn't for the stubborn
cruelty of humanity. We will never forget Barry and we will never forgive the
exploiters.
A.L.F.
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sun that she will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a person
saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath she is going to tell you what
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