The recall of over 550 million eggs for salmonella contamination recently from Wright county egg and Hallandale farms gave the humane society another chance to exhibit their biased views on modern agricultural production methods. They used this incident to try and further their agenda of trying to do away with confinement animal production methods regardless of the cost or the true facts. These methods have already been successful in getting California and Michigan to pass laws to begin phasing out caged egg production and other states are considering this.
The humane society had two videos on their website, “High Risk Eggs.” And “Animal Abuse at down egg factory.” After watching these videos of supposedly normal cage egg production facilities I have a few thoughts that I would like to share. I find the portrayed of these operations as to being very deceitful. I have had the privilege to tour MO ARK’s egg production facilities in Neosho MO and found them to be just the opposite of what is portrayed in the videos. The hens were healthy, fully feathered and well cared for. Plenty food and water were always available for them. Yes hens do sometimes die in the cage but hens raised free also die and any dead bird is quickly removed. The human society want you to believe that the operation in the videos are normal, profitable one while anyone with knowledge of animal production knows that a healthy comfortable animal is much more profitable than a sick, uncomfortable one.
There also was no way to verify where these videos were shot. It is apparent that they were probably shot at night due to how the lighting looks. This would make one believe that these videos were probably shot without the knowledge or consent of the owners which means they probably shot without the knowledge or consent of the owners which means they probably trespassed to obtain the videos. With the conditions in these videos so unlike the normal conditions of caged birds which are usually inspected on has to question whether these videos were even shot in the United States and the Humane Society should be pressed to provide proof of the location of these facilities. This has the potential of causing problems for them the videos are identified as to location and they did not have permission to film on the property.
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