New England Egg Farm Investigation

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation reveals shocking abuse at New Englands largest egg factory farm - Quality Egg of New England (QENE) in Turner, Maine. The hidden camera video shot in early 2009 gives a startling glimpse behind the closed doors of one of the nations leading egg producers, exposing the rotten truth behind battery cage egg production heinous cruelty to animals.

The findings of MFA's newest investigation are similar to those documented at numerous egg farms across the country in recent years - illustrating that animal neglect and abuse are the egg industry standard, not the exception.

Thankfully, consumers hold enormous power in ending the exploitation of egg-laying hens. Every time we sit down to eat we can choose kindness over cruelty by adopting a vegan diet.

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Pets & Animals

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• QENE
• egg
• vegan
• vegetarian
• battery
• cage
• animal
• cruelty
• hen
• abuse
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• factory
• farm
• meat
• chicken

[TurntableMadness]

we have 8 chickens and in the day we let the run around our big garden ;-) we never buy eggs

[pjj1020]

i don't buy eggs...i have 2 chickens and i eat there eggs :)

[heidigwc]

You don't have to be a vegan to stop this misery. Find a local person who raises laying hens. Check out where they live and how they are treated. If you don't buy the large factory farm eggs, they'll eventually get the point.

[veganchica]

Thanks for posting this. Though our actions may seem insignificant in this ignorant and apathetic world, being vegan allows us to make people ask. Why vegan? This is why. I'm putting my foot down. i will not participate in this atrocity and I will do all that I can to inform these poor ignorant people, when they ask. We can make a difference. Go vegan people!

[iamesthere]

OMG this really changes your look on the creulty of animals, this is so sad, i choose to go vegan, from now on!

[NineCatsz]

......and you wonder why eggs carry salmonella.

[shooshoodog]

how in the world do they get away with that?

[OrcaDreams123]

I am a proud vegan for 9 months. It makes me sick thinking about what these beautiful birds go through for a carton of eggs...

[TheShibo]

Only in theory is there any other way to end this cruelty. As long as animals are treated as a substance (not even as objects) to be produced and sold, they will be treated in this way. One could, theoretically, raise animals on a farm as though they are pets, but that would be terribly inefficient and certainly wouldn't support our appetites for meat. Unfortunately, the only thing that really makes any sense, as far as I can figure, is to have no part of it at all (go vegan).

[xAnimalxRightsx]

sbwood08, any cruelty is considered a bad thing because it disrespects a living, consious creature in some way. If it is cruel to treat such a creature with this sort of disrespect, then it is also cruel to bring it into the world in order to live only so far as to meet the requirements of it's 'masters', and to treat it's dead, used body as nourishment when there are healthier, more nutritious and more efficient foods available. In my opinion, the only way to end this cruelty is going vegan.