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POPSThe Truth About Factory Farms " Civil Eats * About * Contact * RSS * * Business and Technology * Eating Culture * Energy Policy * Environment * Food Access * Food Policy * Grow Your Own * Health * In the Kitchen * Life on the Farm * Re-Localize * Take Action « Solar Panels: Just Another Crop? Sweet Sweetback’s Salad with Roasted Beet Vinaigrette » Messy Messages: When the Truth Is Labeled a Smear Campaign * Food Policy April 14th, 2009 By Paul Shapiro A recent Mercy for Animals (MFA) investigation at New England’s largest egg producer revealed a list of cruelties few people would ever want to witness. Dead hens left to rot in cages with live hens. Birds, wildly flapping, kicked like footballs into manure pits. Cages upon cages of birds crammed so tight they can’t even spread their wings. The list of horrors goes on. You’d think this would be the kind of obvious animal abuse few people would hesitate to conde