6 mois de prison pour avoir filmé un élevage

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6 mois de prison pour avoir filmé un élevage de production
d'oeufs de poule

Sur http://www.wegmanscruelty.com/
il y a aussi maintenant une vidéo de 3mn(en bas à gauche, intitulé "Wegmans
demonstration - The first year")
qui montre les actions faites contre cette chaine de supermaché américaine
qui vend des oeufs de poule en cage de batterie.
Il n'y a pas de parole, juste des images et de la musique qui donne la
pêche!

Antoine

On 5/18/06, avis avis wrote:
Pour info, un militant aux USA condamné a 6 mois de prison ferme pour avoir
filmé un élevage de production d'oeufs de poule. Le film est visible sur le
lien suivant : http://www.wegmanscruelty.com/ Il est possible d'écrire au
militant emprisonné (contact à la fin de l'article d'arkangel).
http://www.arkangelweb.org/
U.S.A.
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 : http://www.wegmanscruelty.com/
You can write to Adam Durand at:
Adam Durand
Wayne County Jail
7368 Route 31
Lyons, NY 14489
USA