Fwd: ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS 'LIBERATE' BATTERY HENS

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In a message dated 4/24/2003 10:57:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,

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> ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS 'LIBERATE' BATTERY HENS

> The Independent, Michael McCarthy, 24 April 2003

> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=399831

>

> More than 1,000 battery hens have been " liberated " in a raid on a chicken

> farm, animal rights activists claimed yesterday. The birds were removed

> from

> the farm in two horse boxes and have now been given homes as " companion

> animals " with sympathisers, the Animal Liberation Front said. The raid

> happened during the Easter weekend at Wallops Wood Farm in Droxford,

> Hampshire, when 16 balaclava-clad activists broke into farm buildings and

> removed the chickens. Hampshire police said they were investigating a

> burglary at the farm, where extensive damage had been caused and some

> poultry had been released.No one from the farm was available for comment.

>

> Robin Webb, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, said the raid was

> " to highlight the cruelty of the battery system, which has been condemned

> by

> every government committee of inquiry since the Bramble report of 1965 " . Mr

> Webb alleged that hens at the farm had fallen out of their cages and were

> living in deep piles of chicken droppings. Some had died in their own

> droppings, he said, adding that the activists had made a video of

> conditions

> at the farm which would be passed on to a national animal welfare

> campaigning group. Mr Webb said that the raiders had taken away 1,023 hens.

> He said: " They will be re-homed in places where they will be treated as

> companion animals and they will live out their natural life span. " The

> activists had damaged the caging system, conveyor belts and feeding

> apparatus and left slogans painted on the walls, Mr Webb said.

>

> The EU has passed a new law to phase out battery cages, which comes into

> effect in 2012. So far, the British Government has declined to act

> unilaterally.

 

 

 

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