Mercy For Animals released video taken by an underground
worker at a Gray Ridge Eggs farm near Listowel showing, among other abuses, caged
hens tramping on a dead bird.
The agent says his main job was removing dead birds from
cages.
"You'd see the dead rotting birds decomposed
beyond recognition, just left in cages with hens still laying eggs that all go
for human consumption, he said.
He will not release his identity because he intends to
continue underground videotaping at farms that hire him.
The underground agent told Huffington Post that many of the hens would get their legs trapped in the sides of the cages, unable to reach food or water, and would be trampled by other hens.
Mike Walsh, vice-president of marketing for Gray Ridge Egg Farms, said he can’t recognize any Gray Ridge farm from the
He said battery cages are a common industry practice, but that no new ones were being built at Gray Ridge.
Mercy For Animals has been highly successful
publicizing animal abuses via underground videos. It has hit Canadians several
times, including Chilliwack Cattle Company of British Columbia, the largest
dairy in Canada that uses a rotary milking parlour, and turkeys in barns near
Bright that tend breeding birds for Hybrid Turkeys.
Until now, there has never been a case of the accused saying the videos were not shot at their facilities.
