{"id":751844,"date":"2018-03-13T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751844"},"modified":"2018-03-13T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:22:11","slug":"consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751844","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Are Revolting Against Animal Cruelty \u2014 So the Poultry Industry Wants to Force Stores to Sell Their Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GLENN GREENWALD:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Over the last decade, thanks to a cascade of undercover expos\u00e9s of factory farms and slaughterhouses by animal rights activists, it has become increasingly difficult to ignore the horrors of industrial animal agriculture. Though it has received less attention than than the systematic torture of pigs and cows, perhaps no part of animal agriculture is more heinous than egg production, an industry in which hens are confined to excruciatingly small cages for the entirety of their tortured lives&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>As consumers have awoken to the barbaric conditions of the egg industry, they have begun to turn toward incrementally more humane alternatives, such as cage-free eggs, as well as truly humane options, such as eggs from pasture-raised hens at places like Vital Farms. <\/em><em>The market, as they say, is speaking. As Americans become more educated about the morally repellent practices of this industry, they are increasingly refusing to reward barbaric practices by buying eggs that are the byproduct of industrial torture&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">But in response, the powerful poultry industry \u2014 which long\u00a0invoked\u00a0principles of the \u201cfree market\u201d to justify their torture-derived products being available to consumers \u2014 have now reversed course.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">With consumers choosing more humane egg products, lobbyists for the poultry industry are pushing laws that would\u00a0force stores to carry their products even if doing so offends their moral sensibilities and ethical judgments&#8217;.<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/03\/02\/consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_JEMuTLYPU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLENN GREENWALD: &#8216;Over the last decade, thanks to a cascade of undercover expos\u00e9s of factory farms and slaughterhouses by animal rights activists, it has become increasingly difficult to ignore the horrors of industrial animal agriculture. 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