Organizations in the U.K. including the Animal Justice Project continue to break into farms and release videos purporting to show inappropriate housing and management. A recent episode received extensive press attention as the farm selected is owned and operated by a director of the British Free Range Egg Producers Association.

Not only are images cherry-picked to demonstrate a specific problem, but inappropriate and misleading captions are also supplied to media.  In the specific case, a flock, shortly before depopulation, was shown with a number of hens demonstrating normal feather loss. The second image showed that outside access was limited by closed ‘popholes’.  This flock was apparently undergoing vaccination.

Despite the fact that U.K. egg producers were coerced into transitioning to free-range production, current action by animal rights groups demonstrates that it is impossible to satisfy pro-vegan zealots.  Their objective is to displace all forms of intensive livestock production in favor of their chosen lifestyle that they appear intent on imposing on all consumers.