Notes to Pages 42–49 / 131- Beaver et al., “Report of the 2006 National Animal Disaster Summit.”
- These issues are part of a research agenda proposed by Plous, “Psycho-
logical Mechanisms.” - West and Zhou, “Did Chickens Go North?”; Glatz, Critchley, and
Lunam, “Domestic Chicken.” - Molnar, Hoban, and Bryant, “Passing the Cluck”; Sambidi, Harrison,
and Farr, Conjoint Analysis of Site Selection, 3. - Ernst, Poultry Fact Sheet No. 20; Orlans et al., Human Use of Ani-
mals, 256. - Sambidi, Harrison, and Farr, Conjoint Analysis of Site Selection, 3.
According to the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association, the top ten broiler produc-
ers are Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, Gold Kist, Perdue Farms Inc.,
Sanderson Farms, Wayne Farms LLC., Mountaire Farms Inc., Foster Farms,
OK Foods Inc., and Peco Foods Inc. - Molnar, Hoban, and Bryant, “Passing the Cluck,” 91.
- According to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, the
precise fi gures for 2004 egg production, the most recent available, is 343 mil-
lion laying hens. - United Egg Producers, United Egg Producers Animal Husbandry
Guidelines. - Franklin, Animals and Modern Cultures, 137.
- Cody, “Tyson Shifting Its Ports on Gulf.”
- “Sanderson Farms, Inc. Provides Update on Hurricane Katrina Dam-
age,” Investor Relations Overview: News Release, September 6, 2005, http://
phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=68801&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=
753218&highlight=. - All quotations from Kate Walker and Kim Sturla in this chapter,
unless otherwise attributed, are from interviews by the author, February 7,
- Articles on the Buckeye rescue are available from the Farm Sanctu-
ary home page at http://www.farmsanctuary.org/. On the company’s environ-
mental record, see Natural Resources Defense Council, America’s Animal Fac-
tories: How States Fail to Prevent Pollution from Livestock Waste, http://www.
nrdc.org/water/pollution/factor/stohi.asp; EggCruelty.com, Dirty Histories: A
History of Buckeye Egg Farm, http://www.eggcruelty.com/dirtyhistories.asp. - In 2003, the Ohio Department of Agriculture ordered Buckeye Egg
Farm to cease production because of numerous pollution and nuisance vio-
lations dating to 1997. In 2004, Buckeye was sold to another company, Ohio
Fresh Eggs. The new owners have also been cited for environmental and
OSHA violations. - Quoted in Erik Markus, Buckeye: The Shelter Movement’s Finest Hour,
http://www.vegsource.com/articles/buckeye.htm.