Day 093 - 28 Feb 95 - Page 21


     
     1   Q.   Did they tell you how they managed to continue to get eggs
     2        continuously for 15 months?
     3        A.  Yes.
     4
     5   Q.   Just by the lighting, you say?
     6        A.  Yes, well, you have to again look at the entire
     7        picture, not only light.  Production comes from having a
     8        controlled environment which includes nutrition, includes
     9        the health of the animal, includes the sanitary, the pest
    10        controls, the entire humidity, the lights, everything.  It
    11        is not just one thing.
    12
    13        The only reason we manage to produce more eggs is because
    14        the animals are healthier.  It is as simple as that.  But
    15        that we do not necessarily produce more eggs; if those
    16        animals were subjected to the same environment, they will
    17        produce about the same.
    18
    19   Q.   So you say that the company never uses false molting?
    20        A.  That is what I said.
    21
    22   Q.   All the male chicks of the egg laying strains will be
    23        killed at birth, will they not?
    24        A.  No, not necessarily, no.
    25
    26   Q.   What are they used for then?
    27        A.  They are used for production for smaller birds.
    28
    29   Q.   For smaller birds, what, for meat?
    30        A.  For meat, yes, but they will not -----
    31
    32   Q.   What, all of them?
    33        A.  Excuse me?
    34
    35   Q.   All of them?
    36        A.  As far as I know, yes.
    37
    38   Q.   They are not as productive as broilers, though, are they?
    39        A.  No.  That is why we do not grow them to six-and-a-half
    40        pounds.
    41
    42   Q.   What do you do with them?  Can you explain what happens to
    43        them?
    44        A.  They are raised to a smaller weight.
    45
    46   Q.   What weight?
    47        A.  I do not know.
    48
    49   Q.   You do not know?
    50        A.  No, well, we do not raise them.  Tyson does not raise 
    51        them for our purposes.  They sell it to their own 
    52        operations.  I do not know what they do with them, to what 
    53        weight they raise them at.
    54
    55   Q.   So you do not actually know what happens to them once they
    56        are hatched?
    57        A.  That is what I told you.
    58
    59   Q.   Is it right that battery chickens are not stunned during
    60        slaughter or prior to slaughter because, if they were,

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