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"I found a hen in a top cage with a large prolapse dripping blood. There was one other hen in her cage who had a bloody beak, indicating that this bird had been cannibalizing the prolapse," he wrote in his diary.
When factory farms like Norco Ranch are exposed--Mercy For Animals has released videos from House of Raeford in North Carolina, Ohio Fresh Eggs in Croton and Gemperle in Turlock, CA--management usually vows to "investigate" the "bad apples"-while simultaneously accusing documenters of permitting or staging cruelty.
Yet Aaron repeatedly pointed out suffering animals to other employees and oblivious supervisors.
"I told one woman who had worked at Norco for 27 years that the birds had prolapsed egg vents which were bleeding and painful," Aaron told a reporter.
"You mean their insides are coming out?" she asked in Spanish, recounts Aaron, conveying she had never heard of the condition before. "You should kill them but first ask the supervisor."
The supervisor said to kill them if "it wasn't too many."
Nor are the hygienic black holes known as modern egg farms even capable of animal welfare with one employee assigned to from 180,000 to 330,000 chickens.
And while agribusiness says the incredible, edible egg comes from a "science based" system--at least after the blood, manure and mites are removed-- how do you know "unless you've seen it for yourself?" asks Aaron.
"I could not personally give someone information unless I saw it myself."
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