PATRIOT-NEWS Opinion: …Animal rightists hold that conditions at big chicken farms are inhumane and others believe the primary consideration is to assure hungry Americans their morning meal, over easy.
The dispute has engaged the Humane Society of the United States and United Egg Producers, an industry group, in a costly legal and political struggle. The animal rights groups have hammered away at the egg farmers in the courts and in the political arena.
The Humane Society argues the laying hens in a modern factory farm live almost all their lives in cramped conditions, unable to turn around, raise their wings or do little other than crank out a stream of eggs. It and other animal rights groups threatened a state-by-state crusade for reform… (more)
