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Hillside Farm Animal
                         Investigations Begin...

 y offering              One of our first Farm Animal Investigations
come our patron          exposed the terrible conditions inside a
ting our work.           Norfolk battery egg farm. We found hens
                         perched on the dead bodies of their
     ○○○                 companions as eggs piled up behind the
                         lifeless, decaying birds.
  Scheme
                         We went on to show just how many of the
anctuary in August       UK’s farms were in a similar, appalling
ths old. He had been     condition, and that the authorities would
                         often conceal this mispractice up by trying
  owner because his      to hide the truth from a public that was
he moves) was not        becoming increasingly concerned about
                         animal welfare.
 ’t matter to him as he
 nd it didn’t matter to  The farm owner, who was no less than the
 leased to give him a
 ined our adoption       regions top NFU egg representative,

                         callously stated, ‘I have shown a lot of

                         people around my farm and they say they

                         can’t see what all the fuss is about’.    7
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