“The birds are mummified. That means the birds had to have been here for a while.”
-- Humane Society spokesman Wayne Pacelle describes a video showing long-dead, flattened chickens that live chickens are forced to lay eggs on in crowded Hillandale cages. See “Hillandale Farms Responds to Hidden Camera Footage Showing Decomposing Chickens at Pennsylvania Egg Farm,” as posted at this June 10, 2015ABC News site:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/hillandale-farms-responds-hidden-camera-footage-showing-decomposing/story?id=31670059
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Jeff Martin, a Hillandale Farms manager, talks to ABC Nightline reporter David Wright:
“We would welcome if somebody wanted to come and see our farm and see how we treated the birds, we would welcome working with them.”
-- As quoted in the ABC Nightline news video at this June 11, 2015 site:
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“The farm believes in full transparency, so we asked if we could go inside and take a look at it for ourselves. We were told though that no visitors are allowed because of the fear of avian flu spreading.”
-- Reporter Kyle Rogers of Harrisburg, Pa.’s CBS 21 News WHP in the video here:
http://www.local21news.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Hillandale-Farms-speaks-out-following-hidden-video-investigation-147499.shtml
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“We asked for a tour of their facilities. They told us it was too late in the day to accommodate the request.”
-- Reporter Chris Davis of Harrisburg, Pa.’s ABC 27 News WHTM in the video here:
2 comments:
Go to any chicken farm operation on any day and ask for an impromptu tour, and you should be unequivocally turned down. No farmer would allow any unknown outsider who may be carrying the Avian Flu anywhere near his flock. Even with your proper wash down & prep, why should the farmer even waste his time with giving tours? HE'S BUSY WORKING, RAY! And he knows you're only there to take pictures of normal happenings, then make up stories about them that carry your agenda.
Go away, Ray. The man is busy feeding your effing pie hole.
Agreed! Especially if it's someone who is "investigating" the poultry industry, because they are likely to carry in pathogens from another poultry farm or facility they've visited.
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