Compassion Over Cruelty’s (COK) case against Pennsylvania-based
Esbenshade Farms has reached a sad ending. After reviewing the under-cover
video and hearing from the defense and prosecution, Judge Jayne Duncan of
the Magisterial District Court in Lancaster County acquitted the egg factory
farm owner and manager of animal cruelty charges.
According to COK’s general counsel Cheryl Leahy, “If these animals had been
dogs or cats, there’s little doubt this case would have resulted in a
conviction. There is a clear double standard here, and that hypocrisy is
troubling.”
The lack of laws protecting God’s animals in spite of the abundant evidence
pointing to cruel and abusive conditions in egg poultry farms is
disappointing and appalling. As long as consumers keep supporting this
facilities, profit will define the way egg-laying hens are treated.
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