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Nearly fifteen months after uncovering unspeakable cruelty at Ohio’s largest egg factory farms, Mercy For Animals investigators have again gone undercover behind closed doors to shed light on the inherent cruelties of battery cage facilities. The investigation began in December, 2002 after Weaver Brothers Egg Farm, located in Versailles, Ohio, failed to respond to a certified letter requesting a tour and expressing concern over the farm's treatment of hens. Following stringent industry-guideline biosecurity measures and armed with video and photo equipment, MFA investigators made nighttime visits to the factory documenting case after case of animal neglect and abuse.

The findings of this investigation are, sadly, not uncommon. In the past two years, six undercover investigations at egg farms in Ohio, Maryland, and Minnesota, have uncovered overcrowded cages, hens suffering from untreated infections, hens in manure pits with no access to food or water, dead birds left to decompose in cages, and hens trapped in the wire of their cages.

MFA’s recent investigation at Weaver Brothers Egg Farm has once again exposed such abuses. The previous facilities investigated are not the “bad apples” or the “exceptions” but rather the cruelties uncovered are accepted industry practices.

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