DawnWatch: Egg laying hens and Trappist monks in LA Times — 3/15/07
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
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From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Mar 15, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Egg laying hens and Trappist monks in LA Times — 3/15/07
The Thursday, March 15, Los Angeles Times, includes terrific coverage of PETA’s campaign calling attention to the treatment of hens raised by a Trappist Monastery in South Carolina. The story, by Stephanie Simon, is headed, “PETA calls for monks’ repentance” (Pg A9.) The accompanying photo says it all. The indoor shot of a huge shed full of endless rows of battery cages, each stuffed with hens, has the caption: “‘God’s Precious Creatures’: Mepkin Abbey’s hens are caged according to U.S. industry egg standards.”
Indeed, they are caged according to the US egg industry’s appalling standards.
Simon opens:
“Quoting the pope and Roman Catholic teachings, the nation’s largest animal-rights group has accused a Trappist monastery in South Carolina of raising hens for its egg business in an inhumane manner.
“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA — which secretly videotaped the hens — demanded Wednesday that the state attorney general and agricultural officials investigate Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, S.C.
“The group criticizes the monks for keeping their hens tightly caged, and accuses them of misleading consumers with the text on their egg cartons, which hails the abbey’s agricultural operation as part of a ‘centuries-old tradition’ that exemplifies ‘caring cultivation of the earth and its creatures.’”
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From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Mar 15, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Egg laying hens and Trappist monks in LA Times — 3/15/07
The Thursday, March 15, Los Angeles Times, includes terrific coverage of PETA’s campaign calling attention to the treatment of hens raised by a Trappist Monastery in South Carolina. The story, by Stephanie Simon, is headed, “PETA calls for monks’ repentance” (Pg A9.) The accompanying photo says it all. The indoor shot of a huge shed full of endless rows of battery cages, each stuffed with hens, has the caption: “‘God’s Precious Creatures’: Mepkin Abbey’s hens are caged according to U.S. industry egg standards.”
Indeed, they are caged according to the US egg industry’s appalling standards.
Simon opens:
“Quoting the pope and Roman Catholic teachings, the nation’s largest animal-rights group has accused a Trappist monastery in South Carolina of raising hens for its egg business in an inhumane manner.
“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA — which secretly videotaped the hens — demanded Wednesday that the state attorney general and agricultural officials investigate Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, S.C.
“The group criticizes the monks for keeping their hens tightly caged, and accuses them of misleading consumers with the text on their egg cartons, which hails the abbey’s agricultural operation as part of a ‘centuries-old tradition’ that exemplifies ‘caring cultivation of the earth and its creatures.’”
