Apr 16 2010
Could the HSUS Egg Videos Have Been Staged?
The Executive Vice President of one egg company in Iowa sure thinks so.
This is video from WHO-TV in Des Moines. It will be fascinating to see where the story goes.
The HumaneWatch weekly prize for rhetoric goes to Iowa Farm Bureau news services manager Dirck Steimel, understandably miffed at being excluded from Wayne Pacelle's big "press conference:
Why were we kept out? HSUS leader Wayne Pacelle told the Des Moines Register that he shut out ag affiliated folks because he didn’t want “disruptions.”
But you have to wonder. It appears the tanned and polished Pacelle just doesn’t want to answer tough, and informed, questions. That doesn’t fit into Pacelle’s formula where he parachutes into town, calls a press conference at a downtown hotel and tries to make a splash in the media with undercover videos of alleged animal abuse.
The folks he accuses don’t get a chance to talk or ask questions ...
Of course, that's by design too. It would be a media fiasco if "the folks he accuses" were to stand up and say "that's not my farm on the video."
Posted on 04/16/2010 at 09:49 AM by the HumaneWatch Team
Audio & Video • Animal Agriculture • Eggs • (5) CommentsComments
Gee you mean that video with the “undercover” worker who looks into the camera and angrily throws live chickens as hard as he can into dollies for removal. That video—STAGED??? Who would a thunk!
I think this is the one you are looking for, maybe that link was in here….
http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/hsus_offends_iowa_journalists_lays_giant_egg/
Sounds about par for the course for Wacky Wayne and the H$U$. I think the Rose Farms guy is probably quite correct, both in the assumption that the video is fraudulent, and in the accusation that they H$U$ paid someone to commit the acts of cruelty for the cameras.
Thanks for the link. Did anyone else think that the facility didn’t look the same in all the shots?
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Where can I find the video they are talking about? Thanks!