New COK Investigation Leads to Criminal Charges of Animal Cruelty

Press Coverage

COK’s unprecedented case of criminal cruelty to animals involving one of Pennsylvania’s largest egg farms has generated tremendous media coverage, educating perhaps tens of thousands of readers and television viewers about the miseries endured by hens forced to spend their lives inside decrepit wire battery cages.

• “Judge Likely to Decide Egg Farm Cruelty Case in Mid-April”
  Associated Press
  March 4, 2007
• “Farm Goes on Defense”
  The Intelligencer Journal
  March 3, 2007
• “Mount Joy Egg-Farm Cruelty Case Resumes”
  The Intelligencer Journal
  March 2, 2007
• “Animal Cruelty Charges Come Home To Roost”
  Lancaster Sunday News
  August 13, 2006
• “Settlement Eyed in Egg Farm Case”
  The Intelligencer Journal
  August 8, 2006
• “Egg-Farm Cruelty Case Ends with Lawyers Seeking Deal”
  Associated Press
  August 7, 2006
• “Professor: Egg Farm Had Deteriorating Cages, Neglected Birds”
  Associated Press
  August 7, 2006
• “1 charge Dropped in Egg-Farm Cruelty Case”
  Lancaster New Era
  August 7, 2006
• “Animal Cruelty Trial”
  CBS-21, WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  August 7, 2006
• “Chicken Farm Owner, Manager Face Cruelty Charges”
  NBC-8, WGAL in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  August 7, 2006
• “Egg Farm Cruelty Charges”
  CBS-21, WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  April 19, 2006
• “Egg Plant Loses Bid to Suppress Animal Activist’s Evidence”
  Associated Press
  April 18, 2006
• “Graphic Undercover Video Leads to Animal Cruelty Charges”
  NBC-8, WGAL in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  January 11, 2006
• “Animal Cruelty Charges”
  CBS-21, WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  January 11, 2006
• “Egg Farm Hit with Cruelty Charges”
  Associated Press
  January 11, 2006
• “Lancaster County Egg Farm is Cited for Animal Cruelty”
  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  January 10, 2006

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