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This industry is totally callous and shameful for our civilised society. Producers are allowed to inflict cruelty and total deprivation on living creatures without any laws to protect the victims due to codes of conduct that protect their profit-making. Our Federal Government has no agenda for protecting animals in agriculture, despite their claims to the contrary. They allow intensive farming, the kangaroo killing industry and live exports. They have no scruples or ethics, and totally lack any ideals for the protection of animals that suffer in today's affluent, animal-based diets. Yet another case of a few brave individuals having to "break the law" to do the job that regulatory bodies fail to do. ALV have on many occasions produced the RSPCA with extensive evidence of animal abuse and yet the RSPCA (the only organisation with the ability to prosecute such cases) have failed to pursue them any further. Not only would the general public be disgusted to know what goes on in many animal production industries, but also some of the RSPCA's dubious allegiances with these producers. Check out www.rspcawatchdogorg for more information. It is simply outrageous that Animal Liberation Open Rescuers should be under threat of prosecution for doing the job that the RSPCA is paid to do - and doesn't. The people who should be prosecuted are the operators of this hideously cruel establishment. It is manifestly cruel to keep living creatures confined in such atrocious conditions, and we know that this is the reality for hundreds of thousands of these birds. Why do these people need guard dogs and electric fences if they have "nothing to hide"? Animal Liberation, and Patty Mark in particular, are shining examples us all. And they show that Peter Costello's attempts to condone shocking animal cruelty by increasing the powers of the ACCC are doomed to fail. Democracy will previail, and it is time that this government learned that we will not be silenced! I think i it takes courageous people like the ones from Animal Liberation, to make the rest of us aware of the very real and inhumane treatment of animals produced for food. It is very easy for the average person to buy products like eggs and have no idea or thought about the poor animals who are put through a life of hell just for out benefit. There is a better way as we now know and free range eggs and meat produce shoudl be the only legal way allowed. Thankyou for exposing the horror in the "chook shed". Good on ya "Animal Liberation", keep it up. There is no need for cruelty to animals, especially the animals we breed to eat. We all need to take a second look at ourselves and the world we are living in. Murder, mayhem and obscene never ending cruelty, from Australia to the abattoirs in Basatin Egypt. It is absolutely disgraceful to confine any creature - big or small, in such malicious and torturous conditions. Have these farmers no conscience? No heart? No guilt? Being a vegan myself, I don't push my morals onto anybody, but at least while these animals are living, can't they live in peace without pain and discomfort? It sickens me thinking about the poor souls struggling, without having a voice. I don't understand...do people not realise that animals actually sense pain just like us? Why would you even think about inflicting pain on another life? It truely baffles me. These people are hero's, im a member of animal liberation victoria, and wish these caring people all the best. Its a disgrace the disgusting conditions these animals are kept in, and its all being very hiden from public view. This article is helping the cause, and its great the people are slowly realising what a revolting, cruel way they are getting there, eggs and chicken meat. Free range is an option, although vegetarianism is a healthier one, and veganism is a godly one. thanks for putting this article in your paper, it helps the animals alot. it is obviously the proprietors of the battery hen facility who should be prosecuted, not the courageous people who have exposed this hideous cruelty. It is beyond belief that living, feeling creatures can be treated in this way, and nothing done to prevent it. We in the ACT are campaigning vigorously to have battery farming banned, and we will support Animal Liberation Victoria in any way possible I congratulate the Herald Sun for printing the story about Animal Liberation Victoria's "Open Rescue" (25/02 page 24). Thank God there are some brave and dedicated people out there taking personal risks to expose the atrocities of intensive agriculture. Contrary to what the manager of "Happy Hens" believes, this group of rescuers are not just "a minority group who make a lot of noise". I am certain that the general public would vehemently oppose the conditions of intensive farming - if they only knew what went on behind the walls. That is why your editorial is so important. It's about public education. Unlike the RSPCA, which does not posses the power to protect animals used in science or agriculture, Animal Liberation Victoria has always done what must ultimately be done. If a child is in an abusive situation, someone goes in and removes it. Animal Liberation applies that same ethic to abused animals. The non-human victims of domestic violence are sometimes saved by the RSPCA, but the non-human victims of commercial violence are only ever saved by Animal Liberation! These so-called 'well treated' hens show how horrifically inadequate our animal welfare laws are. This industry is sadistic and inhumane, and only geared for high production, with totally inadequate provisions for the birds. They are deprived of all life, natural movements and instinctic behaviours. Their short lives are painful and sad, all to provide our cheap 'cage' eggs, as if this were the most natural thing in the world! The electric fences, the darkened sheds and high security are to ensure that there is no transparency in these evil 'farms'. The laws protect the producers, but not the hapless hens, and pigs, that exist entirely inside their walls. Factory farming needs to be phased out, and replaced with free-range and organic. Good on the rescuers...how long does it take for the relevant authorities to start enforcing the rules prohibiting maltreatment of animals? The RSPCA in this country is an absolute disgrace. As the very front page of the RSPCA website claims: freedom from hunger, thirst, discomfort, pain, injury or disease. All of which they choose to totally ignore in cases like this. Good on the rescuers...how long does it take for the relevant authorities to start enforcing the rules prohibiting maltreatment of animals? The RSPCA in this country is an absolute disgrace. As the very front page of the RSPCA website claims: freedom from hunger, thirst, discomfort, pain, injury or disease. All of which they choose to totally ignore in cases like this. Chicken freedom fighter?....or Poultry terrorist? That is the question. There are very few laws to protect animals in our agricultural industry, They are heavily protected by our law-makers, and many politicians are also producers. Codes of Practice set down the minimum standards, which is really the status-quo and do more to legalise cruelty than protect the birds and animals crowded in sheds and cages. These owners make sure the public have eggs at the cheap rate we do - at the ghastly expense of suffering. The RSPCA cannot prosecute, and there is little protesters can do other than what these activists have done. Well done to ALV. 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