My Late Night Visit to a 'Certified Humane' Egg Farm
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Donny Moss, TheirTurn.net
January 2017

I never see this level of security around corn fields or orange mangroves, so why would a company whose eggs are certified humane by the American Humane Association go to such great lengths to keep people out?

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As we drove up to the front gate of the egg company JS West, I couldn’t help but wonder why a farm that was lauded in the NY Times as a place where hens “are leading the good life” would need a barbed wire fence around its perimeter. I never see this level of security around corn fields or orange mangroves, so why would a company whose eggs are certified humane by the American Humane Association go to such great lengths to keep people out?

I was about to find out because Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), an animal rights organization that has visited many “humane” animal farms to investigate their claims, invited me to document one of their many nocturnal visits to this facility. As we crawled under the fence and jogged toward one of the sheds, I asked the DxE folks if efforts to keep out the public were due to “biosecurity.” They assured me that the answer to that question would be obvious when I entered the building.

Our visit, which was intended to be an investigation of the company’s “humane” claims, morphed into a rescue mission.

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After spending less than a minute inside of a warehouse with 150,000 egg-laying hens, my worst fears were confirmed. “Certified humane” is nothing more than a marketing fraud designed by the animal agriculture industry and retailers to make consumers feel good about purchasing their products.

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Please visit Direct Action Everywhere to learn more about how the animal agriculture industry preys on well-intended consumers by fraudulently marketing their products with language that states or suggests that their animals are treated humanely.


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