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Article: Pasco County Hens Find Sanctuary at United Poultry Concerns
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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MACHIPONGO, Va., March 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A yellow truck with
more than 200 white young hens bedded in straw drove in here from
Pasco County, Fla. yesterday, after being rescued from Cypress Foods,
an egg company that declared bankruptcy in January. Thirty thousand
caged hens out of 200,000 died of starvation within 12 days because
nobody fed them.
While most of the surviving hens were gassed to death in this
horrible episode, more than 300 hens were successfully rescued to
live out their lives happily at United Poultry Concerns (Va), the
Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary (Md), Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary
(Md), and Oohmahnee Farm (Pa). In addition, people in Florida and
North Carolina ...