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07/04/2002 "Death by Accounting"

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If you're a former employee of Enron or (likely soon) Worldcom, yeah, times are tough, but you've at least got the ability to look for another job and at least feed yourself. If you're an "employee" at an egg farm that goes under, you may not be so lucky, especially if your former title was "laying hen".

Cypress Egg Farms went bankrupt in March and hundreds of thousands of chickens either starved to death or were euthanized because their health had deteriorated so much. I imagine that it costs a fair bit to feed that many birds, and when assets are frozen in a bankruptcy case, the accountants take over, as described here:

"A judge had initially refused to release company assets to feed and to care for the birds until Georgia's State Agriculture Commissioner interceded, explaining what should have been obvious that withholding food constitutes willful neglect and cruelty to animals".

Of course, the courts are considering going after the egg farm, not the boneheaded judge.

Stories like this are good to remember when you hear farmers talk about how much they love their animals.

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