It’s been a year since our largest rescue ever. We’ll be uploading new videos to honor the 1-yr anniversary.
Between February 23-24, 2012, Animal Place and Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary coordinated the largest farm animal rescue in California history. More than 4,400 hens were pulled from A&L Poultry in Turlock, California after the owner left the hens without food for more than two weeks.
More than 3,200 of those hens arrived to Animal Place’s two sanctuaries in Grass Valley and Vacaville. This video shows the reality of egg farms across the country.
If you would like to help these hens, visit animalplace.org or simply reduce or eliminate eggs from your diet.
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Things like this will continue to happen and probably get worse if we continue with mass production mass consumption
God bless you for what you do and God bless the man that went below to get the hens that were drowning in the chicken poop.
Absloutely heart breaking! A vegan world will be a better place.
Thank you Animal Place for doing your part in putting an end to animal cruelty. I have a small flock of free range hens who have a happy life, and I can't stand to see hens treated like they were at this farm.
Thank y'all.
It's so beyond sad & cruel. In this world, No empathy, compassion whatsoever given to these beautiful, innocent, loving animals. They are gods creations too.
God bless you.
That was deeply disturbing. Thank you for rescuing those poor birds. I hope there are stricter laws put in place to rid the monsters who create those death camps.
Free range all the way. I don't know about in USA but in the uk we have a choice when purchasing eggs, free range or barn. This relates directly to how the hens are raised and their living conditions. Free range they have the ability to roam outdoors and make a nest in a seperate barn. Similar to "natural" conditions and the less said about barn eggs the better. The vast majority of people will purchase free range because for 1, they have a richer flavour and for 2, the moral side of it. The free range method of farming has grown significantly in the uk because people have chosen to support it. It is most definitely down to consumers making the active choice to support this industry. But please also remember that the second choice is there not to be cruel but because of food prices snd that they cannot afford the alternative. Write to your politician and get involved locally to find out what can be done to reduce the price of free range for the community instead of branding all egg production as evil because it's not. You have the ability to shape how your food is produced.
What happened to the farmer? I hope he was prosecuted
ChristieEleison – Thats the apologist line use the eggs they are there, well the hens will eat them so they will regain their own nutrition, you could say the same thing about slaves – feed them treat them well and exploit them to suit.
MeepDuckisan – Your comments prove you are a total Fuckwit – animals never gave us anything, they were exploited & mistreated, they were never proud they were imprisoned used & abused, your ignorance is staggering.
Hi Jade,
If you wish to help people by donating food or volunteering at, say, a food bank – that's great!
But please be advised that any more comments judging others for being compassionate towards nonhumans will not be tolerated. You are well within your right to want to help only humans and you can do that without leaving nasty comments on other people's pages. Thanks.
All farmers care about is making money from inhumanely abusing and slaughtering animals for MONEY. I hope there's a special place for u when u get off this planet ! You deserve karma !
Hens can lay well into their teens, so I find that possibility highly unlikely. Unfortunately, when the money runs dry, this has a history of happening. There isn't enough money for it to be "worth it" to the owners to try to find homes for the hens, and other egg businesses do not need them, so they get abandoned. Sad, but true. Definitely not the first time, and surely won't be the last.
This has to be the most idiotic video. People get a grip!!!!!! Survival of the fittest!! It's an animal… Eggs are awesome to eat. Stupid and one sided this video. There are other organization out there people like animal peace to help such as poverty in America.. Leave the farmers alone!!!!! Dumb, Dumb!!!!
What a touching video .. loved it will definitely share it with my friends
are you really thinking farm animals get euthanized?
Actually, these operations are so huge that when there is an outbreak, such as the one that ocurred a few years ago, the number of people sickened is enormous. Also, I'd like to see a statistic (other than some UEP propaganda) that says that pastured eggs are more dangerous. That just doesn't make sense.
The one problem about consuming even farm eggs is that the places that produce egg layers grind the male chicks up in big vats to make some kind of "protein powder." That's millions and millions of baby chicks inhumanely slaughtered simply for the crime of being the wrong gender. I do once in a while buy a few eggs from a friend who has a few chickens, but to tell you the truth, cutting eggs out of my diet for the most part didn't change what I ate one bit. Guess I wasn't a big egg consumer.
Oh,please. Maybe FARMERS care deeply about their animals, but the operators of these factory operations could care less about anything except one overriding thing: MONEY. They are no different than the operators of private prisons who feed inmates green bologna because it saves them money or the milk producers in China who put melamine in milk they sold to other people's children in order to boost the protein count on the tests. It's all about the MONEY—that's all that matters to anyone.
No, there is no possible "side to the story" that could even BEGIN to justify what they did. They were responsible for these animals and if they couldn't afford to feed them, it was their duty to either euthanize them or provide for their care in some other way. They simply didn't want to spend the money…PERIOD! All I can say about cases like this is that I sincerely hope that there is such a thing as karma and that they get to spend many lifetimes as an egg-laying hen.
Must be because there is simply no humane nor reasonable justification for anyone or anything having to suffer onto this scale for profit.
Pick up a history book and take a biology class. Or have we really learned nothing?
THANK YOU SO MUCH,WE ALL NEED TO LIGHT THE WAY FOR THESE MOST ABUSED HENS.I HAVE BEEN VEGAN FOR 30 YEARS,AND AM PROUD NOT TO SUPPORT THESE EVIL ABUSERS.
i really wanted 2 watch these kind of clips but it makes me so angry ;(
Really good vid until the blanket statement about not supporting the egg industry in any of its forms. There is nothing ethically wrong with consuming eggs from pastured poultry.
you're actually going to suggest I go to big business for my info about what's best for chickens and people? the United Egg Producers possess 95% of all the nation's egg-laying hens, of course they don't want people to have backyard chickens, they would lose business! DUH are you really that stupid and gullible?
my statements are founded in common sense. you people have obviously never had a backyard chicken or eaten a delicious golden egg plucked fresh that very day from the nest.
You are making a lot of generalized statements, as fact. If you can provide sources, that would be great.
The largest recall of eggs from a Salmonella outbreak (500 million eggs) did not involve backyard farmers. When something goes wrong on backyard farms, it impacts a small number of nonhumans and humans. When something goes wrong on industrial animal farms, it impacts far more.
The owner of A&L Poultry himself admitted to being unable to afford the feed for the birds.
come to think of it. I can't tell if you're trolling or if you're actually that stupid…please educated yourself a bit. Backyard farms are making a comeback because people want to know where their food comes from and one way of doing that is growing and raising it yourself. I would much rather eat eggs from hens that run around in my yard than something that doesn't have a name and isn't loved and well cared for.