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6 Months In Jail For Videotaping Cruelty
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Fri Jun 16, 2006 @ 12:52am |
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New York activist gets 6 months in jail for videotaping cruelty A New York animal rights activist was sentenced to 6 months in jail, the maximum allowed by law, Tuesday, 16th May for sneaking into New York state's largest egg farm to videotape thousands of chickens suffering in the intensive confinement of small, wire battery cages, rows of small wire cages stacked on top of one another. Adam Durand was convicted earlier this month on three counts of criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to two consectutive terms of 90 days, fined $1,500, ordered to serve 100 hourse of community service, and placed on probation for a year. Durand denied breaking into a shed during three nighttime visits in 2004, saying he climbed in through a hole in a wall. He also said he had no intention of removing birds from the farm operated by Rochester-based supermarket chain Wegmans where 700,000 hens produce more than a half-million eggs a day. Hens in cramped conditions can be aggressive. In order to solve the problem of injury, they are de-beaked. The process involves cutting with a hot blade through horn, bone, and soft tissue. Wegman's claims this is painless, despite scientific evidence to the contrary. Two women who accompanied him took away 11 hens "because in every case they were sick or dying and there was just this feeling that they needed veterinary care," Durand testified during his three-day trial in Lyons, 40 miles east of Rochester. The three were arrested last summer when Durand, a graphic designer and director of an animal and consumer-advocacy group called Compassionate Consumers, produced a 27-minute documentary entitled "Wegmans Cruelty" that was screened at a Rochester movie house. The documentary showed, among other things, footage of hen corpses lying in battery cages with other live hens, a few that had fallen into deep manure pits running the length of the building or others with their heads apparently caught in the wire of cages too small for the number of hens forced to live in them. Battery cages have long been the subject of animal rights campaigns throughout the world. Hens confined within them sometimes have no room to move, let alone spread their wings. Disease and stress are common in the cramped conditions. Durand's lawyer, Len Egert, said he hadn't expected him to receive any jail time. "I think it's excessive, given the circumstances," Egert said. "This is a low-level misdemeanor offense and Adam has no prior criminal record. For Wegmans to come in and ask for the maximum and get it is disturbing." "This is a sentence that doesn't really fit the crime," echoed Ryan Merkley, campaign coordinator Compassionate Consumers. "He shouldn't be sentenced to jail, he should be applauded for his efforts to bring to light the kind of cruelty that's committed by Wegmans." For more information on Compassionate Consumer's campaign against Wegman's, click here. You can write to Adam Durand at: Adam Durand Wayne County Jail 7368 Route 31 Lyons, NY 14489 USA |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Haha replied on Tue Jun 20, 2006 @ 3:21pm |
 Coolness: 41255 | Funny how activists will see no problem in breaking the law to prove that others are cruel... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Jun 20, 2006 @ 4:29pm |
 Coolness: 340385 | Well, breaking the law to undercover something that is wrong isn't always wrong, the guy didn't destroy or steal any property.. half a year in jail for trespassing is excessive. Probation alone would have sufficed. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Tue Jun 20, 2006 @ 8:21pm |
| Coolness: 201945 | well there is no doubt the person broke the law, but generally using the harshest sentencing possible is only used on the most dangerous people |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Haha replied on Wed Jun 21, 2006 @ 7:52am |
| Coolness: 41255 | The guy broke in THREE times. In a FOOD producing factory. In the USA. He's lucky he only got six months. The way things are going since 2001, he could have been pinned with a "terrorism attempt" case or something like that.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Haha replied on Wed Jun 21, 2006 @ 7:53am |
| Coolness: 41255 | Mind you, I'm not at all for animal cruelty but that doesn't mean I believe that two wrongs make one right. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Jun 21, 2006 @ 9:32am |
 Coolness: 92985 | People deserve to know what they're eating. If breakig the law can work out for the greater good than why not? Why the fuck are food companies required to tell you the nutritional value or ingredients in your food and not the fact that it's been through pools of diseased and infected blood or at least for people with religious values that it was tortured while being killed and for its entire life b4 that. This isn't just abvotu one slaughter house it's every decent sized one. Oh wait, we're talkign about eggs. Great, they actually keep them alive to suffer longer, they're better off dead. I can't believe how disgusting.. HELL, IT'S HEEELL. Ther is no such thing a s amore disgustign place, there is no such thing as a more disgusting place, AAAAAAAAAHH. grooss!!diediedie |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Jun 21, 2006 @ 9:33am |
| Coolness: 92985 | humans are DISGUSTING. |
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