A MARGATE egg producer has been fined $3000 for leaving decomposing chicken carcases in cages with live hens.
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[Department of Primary Industries agricultural officer Colin Jessup] did an audit of Balke's Minchins Rd farm on March 4 last year and removed 18 dead birds from cages that housed live laying hens.
"The birds were easy to detect by the smell of decomposing tissues," Mr Jessup said.
It appeared many of the hens had been dead for up to two weeks and one was being cannibalised.
"The carcases had been trodden on and were pressed deeply into the mesh on the bottom of the cage," Mr Jessup said.
"Some had manure on top of them and I noted eggs laid by the other birds in the cage either on top of or against the decomposing birds."
Yummy!
Anyone who buys cage eggs has rocks in their head.
Also, a $3000 fine is not nearly enough. That guy ought to have been banned from owning chickens. It's well overdue that cage egg production was banned altogether and standards to define 'free range' egg production should be set in stone- without consultation with any of the big producers. Too bad if people want to eat cheap shit from abused animals and will whinge if the cost of eggs goes up by a couple of dollars a box. Deal with it- or get your own chooks.
2 comments:
Are you a vegetarian?
what does that have to do with anything? i eat heaps of meat, unlike most people i've actually killed and eaten a few farm animals and i still don't think it's a good idea to abuse animals. i also think that morons who risk contaminating our food supply through idiocy and pointless, ill thought out cruelty should go to prison, let alone cop a fine. it's perfectly possible to eat animals without being a dick about it.
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