Poultrix
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Last night there was a huge blaze about thirty minutes east of Grand Rapids in Ionia County. It was on the property of Herbrook Farms, and when it was all over, there was one 500 ft long chicken coop burned to the ground and a quarter million chickens dead.
The Herbrook operation houses 2 million hens at the site, which is only one of many. The chickens are hatched somewhere outstate and brought here to Michigan, and their eggs are harvested starting at around 6 months of age. The eggs that are collected are sent all over the midwest and beyond.
Thinking about those hens, I remembered a good animation I saw a while back that likened the massive farm feeding operations to the Matrix. Suitably enough, it was called “The Meatrix.” Maybe you’ve seen it.
As I thought about that fire, I had a vision of 250,000 tired, abused, fed up, hens. After weeks of secret midnight meetings, they put their plan into motion. The first spark caught and in my mind I see a quarter million chickens going out in a blaze of glory.
The Herbrook organization also distributes eggs from organically fed, free range (or at least cage free) hens, because there are customers who are willing to pay extra for them.
FREE THE CHICKENS!!!
