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“Some egg producers got rid of old hens
by suffocating them in plastic bags or
dumpsters. The more I learned about the egg
industry the more disgusted I got. Some of
the practices that had become 'normal' for
this industry were overt cruelty. Bad had
become normal. Egg producers had become
desensitized to suffering. There is a point
where economics alone must not be the
sole justification for an animal production
practice. When the egg producers asked me
if I wanted cheap eggs, I replied, 'Would you
want to buy a shirt if it was $5 cheaper and
made by child slaves?' Hens are not human,
but research clearly shows that they feel
pain and can suffer.” 12
—Temple Grandin, Ph.D., professor of animal science
at Colorado State University, bestselling author,
and livestock industry consultant
gestation crates over the next decade. Canada's largest pig pro-
ducer, Maple Leaf Foods, made a similar pledge, and the industry
seems to have now recognized that the public will not tolerate this
extreme confinement system. Similarly, the American Veal Asso-
ciation, the trade group for its industry, announced that its pro-
ducers would eliminate individual stalls for calves within a decade,
and two of the largest U.S. veal producers, Strauss Veal and Mar-
cho Farms, have already pledged to phase out crates due to animal
welfare concerns.
Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck recently implemented an historic
animal welfare program in his multimillion-dollar company that
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