17 months ago
TURNER (NEWS CENTER) -- The group, called Mercy for Animals, had one of its members apply for a job at "Quality Egg of New England" located in Turner. The person wore a hidden camera, which recorded what the group says were workers breaking the necks of chickens and tossing them into trash cans -- the chickens appeared to still be alive. It's a practice that the farm's own compliance manager says is not tolerated. Friday, Maine's state veterinarian, doctor Don Hoenig, told the legislature's agriculture committee that Maine Department of Agriculture has only received two animal welfare complaints in the past eight years and that the farm in Turner has been inspected frequently. He says, his department takes these allegations of animal cruelty very seriously.
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