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    Monks in S.C. deny PETA charges of cruelty to chickens

    MONCKS CORNER, S.C. - Trappist monks who operate a chicken farm in South Carolina are disputing accusations from a national animal welfare group that their birds have been mistreated.

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the monks at Mepkin Abbey crammed thousands of chickens into small cages and periodically starved them to increase egg production.

    "Please shut down this operation forever. It is an ugly stain on your otherwise blessed community," PETA vice president Bruce Friedrich wrote in a letter posted Wednesday on the group's Web site.

    The site also displays a video of the monks' egg farm operation, taped in January without the monks' knowledge, according to PETA. On the video, an "investigator" asked several questions about the operation and footage was shown of injured birds left to die.

    The Rev. Stanislaus Gumula, the abbot of Mepkin Abbey, said the group's accusations were "unfactual" and the chickens were caged because it keeps them cleaner and healthier.

    "When they are on the floor, they are subjected to all sorts of parasites and bacteria that are around," Gumula told The New York Times for Wednesday's newspapers. "They walk in their own manure. They walk in their troughs."

    Phone messages left by The Associated Press at the abbey and with a spokeswoman for the monks were not immediately returned.

    "This hurts so much," Gumula told the newspaper. "They're happy chickens. They're being treated nicely."

    On the PETA video, the "investigator" discusses forced molting, which causes additional egg-laying cycles. On the video, one monk said it was "like a fast." Trappists monks are known to fast by going on reduced diets.

    Gumula said the chickens had last been molted in 2006 and they planned to start a new practice this year that did not require the complete elimination of food.

    PETA in its letter said four hens were confined to a 12-by-18-inch cage and the birds "never breathe fresh air, feel the sun on their backs, build nests, raise their young, or do anything else that God designed them to do."

    The video also shows two chickens that were described as severely injured but left lying on the floor unattended. It urges supporters to "go egg free" and contact the monks.

    The monks also discuss how all the chickens undergo "debeaking" before they are delivered to the abbey. The process slices off a tip of the bird's beak to keep them from pecking one another; PETA argues it is a "painful mutilation."

    Gumula told the newspaper the birds were debeaked by the abbey's supplier.

    Mepkin Abbey was founded in 1949 by monks from Kentucky. They belong to the worldwide Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, an order commonly referred to in America as Trappists.
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    "The monks also discuss how all the chickens undergo "debeaking" before they are delivered to the abbey. The process slices off a tip of the bird's beak to keep them from pecking one another; PETA argues it is a "painful mutilation."

    Bravo Sierra!!!!

    Debeaking is not painful! Only if you cut down or melt down too far and hit blood. Otherwise it's no more than clipping your toenails or fingernails. If you don't debeak the chickens they'll gang up on a single individual and peck it to death. That would be painful.

    My aunt and uncle ran an egg farm for years and I helped them out in the summers as a kid. We debeaked using a vertical hotplate. Wearing gloves we would put our index finger between the bird's upper and lower beak then touch the beak to the hotplate. It melts it right off and it stinks to high heaven! About the same smell as fingernails burning.
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    Originally posted by Turd Ferguson Jr.:
    Gee- How did I know that MM would post this after reading it while ago!!

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    Originally posted by Mergie Master:
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    Monks in S.C. deny PETA charges of cruelty to chickens

    PETA in its letter said four hens were confined to a 12-by-18-inch cage and the birds "never breathe fresh air, feel the sun on their backs, build nests, raise their young, or do anything else that God designed them to do."
    They are doing exactly as God intended, eating, layings eggs and tasting most excellent when grilled
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    Somewhat weird PETA trying to use God in their defense. Seems to me that the Bible in Genesis it says that we are to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock over all the earth; and over all creaturs that move along the ground (wild animals). To me, that means that we may eat them or farm them for their produce-eggs.
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