Activist appears in court for 'stealing' battery hens

Rescued chicken. Photo: Mark Hawthorne, www.openrescue.org

Friday 18 January 2008
Activist appears in court for 'stealing' battery hens
Media Release: Open Rescue Collective

Open Rescue Collective activist Mark Eden is appearing in the Levin
District Court at 10am today over burglary charges relating to the
rescue of 20 battery hens from Turk's Poultry, an intensive egg farm in
Foxton owned by Ron Turk.

Mr. Eden is pleading not guilty to
the theft of the hens from the intensive egg farm. The hens were
rescued from horrendous conditions on Turk's farm in November last year
and placed in loving homes for rehabilitation.

Open Rescue activists rescue animals from factory farms and document the conditions
which they find. They openly identify themselves and are willing to
take full responsibility for their actions.

'Every time we visit factory farms we find evidence of illegal animal cruelty. If the
government was serious about animal welfare they would be inspecting
farms and enforcing the laws themselves, instead of leaving it to
volunteer groups like us

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