MONCKS CORNER, S.C. -- Trappist monks who operate a chicken farm in South Carolina are disputing accusations from a national animal-welfare group that their birds have been mistreated.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals allege the monks at Mepkin Abbey crammed thousands of chickens into small cages and periodically starved them to increase egg production.
I like the Trappists. I eat their jams! The Trappist monk and mystic, Thomas Merton, would undoubtedly have called this treatment an obscenity. This is not what St. Francis would have done. This is no Lenten fast. This is cruelty for profit.
On the PETA video, one monk discussed forced molting, a process that involves starving the chickens to make them lay more eggs. The monk compared the practice with a fast.
It's like running an Abu Ghraib chicken coop.
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