Just as we were trying to recover from the Mercy for Animals dairy farm video, the superb group Compassion Over Killing (www.cok.net) released, on June 2, shocking video taken inside a chick hatchery in Santa Cruz, California. The local ABC affiliate has covered the story. You can read it, or view it on line at: http://tinyurl.com/24wmkua
The ABC story does not include the most graphic of the video, but the reporter directs viewers to the station's website where they can view it if they choose to.
The undercover video shows adorable ducklings shooting out of machines at high speed, the injured being literally tossed onto the floor by workers and left there to die. Others are left alive to die slowly after being mangled by machines.
As usual, in encouraging people to make conscious choices, I ask those readers who eat chickens, ducks, or eggs to please view the video in order to see a modern hatchery and know more about the industry those food choices now support. For the animals sake, we must not close our eyes. I ask everybody to at least go to the page and view the less graphic version, and to leave a comment. It is important that the station sees an enthusiastic viewer reaction to this type of coverage.
Three time Emmy award winning reporter David Louie covers the technology and business beat in the Bay Area and chose to make this animal cruelty story part of that beat. Please thank him. Positive feedback for coverage of animal issues encourages more such coverage in the future.
You can email him at david.louie@abc.com
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. You may forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts only if you do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch in the title and include this parenthesized tag line.)
Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com to learn about Karen Dawn's book, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals," which was chosen last year by the Washington Post as one of the "Best Books of The Year!"
To discontinue DawnWatch alerts go to http://www.DawnWatch.com/nothanks.php
----------------------------------------
You are subscribed to DawnWatch using the following address:
example@example.com
Date: Thu Jun 3 19:55:57 2010
