Pants on Fire
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Jasmin and Mariann in Legal Eagles, Media Mavens
The other day, over at Vegan.com, Erik Marcus reported on a particularly scurrilous column by Rod Smith on the website for the industry rag, Feedstuffs. As quoted in Vegan.com:
The language [of United Egg Producers' new guidelines] seeks to address how activist groups that are opposed to cage-housing systems are increasingly infiltrating layer operations — getting jobs as employees and then violating their responsibilities to the birds in their care to film clandestine videos of the birds suffering and then release the video to the media and accuse the company of animal abuse that they have, in fact, caused. Often, the activists convince other workers to commit abuse for the videos.
Lo and Behold, when we went to the article, this is what the same paragraph said:
The language seeks to address how activist groups that are opposed to cage-housing systems are increasingly infiltrating layer operations — getting jobs as employees and then filming videos.
Kudos to Vegan.com. This situation perfectly illustrates the influence that can come with exposing the truth, and it shows the inherent power that can come with responsible blogging.
Apparently, even the meat industrial complex is capable of thinking twice about how far their lies can go, at least once they get caught.
Photo courtesy of Eastern Shore Sanctuary.
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David
29. Jan, 2010
So when video footage captures workers training the investigator (who’s undercover as a new employee) to beat the hell out of the animals and other video footage shows the owners of these operations (and sometimes even the USDA inspectors) participating in or turning a blind eye to obvious abuse, it’s the animal activist’s fault?
HA!
Feedstuffs
30. Jan, 2010
Sorry to disappoint you but we were totally unaware of your posting when we went back in and made some edits to our article on UEP’s new guidelines.
Casey
31. Jan, 2010
Oh, Feedstuffs. We’re not disappointed; on the contrary! We’re proud of you for showing some small measure of honesty. How refreshing!