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Animal rights group uncovers disgusting practices at Iowa egg hatchery

Posted Sep 1, 09 2:08 PM CDT|

(AP) – An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted male chicks by tossing them live into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Chicago-based Mercy for Animals said it shot the video at Hy-Line North America's hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period in May and June.

Hy-Line said the video "appears to show an inappropriate action and violation of our animal welfare policies," referring to chicks on the factory floor. But the company also noted that "instantaneous euthanasia"—a reference to killing of male chicks by the grinder—is a standard practice supported by the animal veterinary and scientific community. According to Mercy for Animals, male chicks are of no use to the industry because they cannot lay eggs and do not grow large quickly enough to be raised profitably for meat.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 2:16 PM CDT

Americans should not find this shocking. This is the reality of feeding billions of people with limited resources. Reply

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Scrambles
Sep 1, 09 2:21 PM CDT

still really sad though...

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jbcorny
Sep 1, 09 3:02 PM CDT

limited resources? i don't think so. plenty of people i know who 'have trouble' paying $2 for a dozen free range eggs seem to have no trouble paying cell phone, cable, or internet bills. people just want cheap goods without facing the reality of their decisions.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 3:08 PM CDT

"Free Range" refers to how a chicken is raised AFTER it is purchased from a hatchery like the one described in the article. Farmers with Free Range chickens have no affect on hatcheries, except that they probably purchase their chicks from them, thus supporting the hatchery.

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jbcorny
Sep 1, 09 3:44 PM CDT

the free range eggs i buy definitely don't come from a hatchery. their from a local farmer, green, brown, or white, and differ slightly in size. not your typical supermarket fare and certainly not from a chicken-mill.

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piyrwq
Sep 1, 09 4:02 PM CDT

Vegan Jesus was right!

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Fondue
Sep 1, 09 4:03 PM CDT

LOL, your name is Scrambles and your avatar is a plate of scrambled eggs. I just find that humorous.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 4:14 PM CDT

@jbcorny: where does your farmer get his chickens to lay the free range eggs?

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Newser001
Sep 1, 09 4:23 PM CDT

The practice is despicable; 150,000 meet their death this way each and every day - Callous. Why don't they shock them first? Grinding them alive...?!! An image that's going to be very, very hard to forget :-(

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JonmarkP
Sep 1, 09 9:55 PM CDT

Wow, we made a big population jump since yesterday. And no, it is not necessary. It is no more necessary to torture animals than it is to torture humans. Enjoy your lunch.

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WallyEFunk
Sep 2, 09 6:52 PM CDT

Found the solution ? I don't know about this one ? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327243.400-painfree-animals-could-take-suffering-out-of-farming.html

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cognitivefilter
Sep 2, 09 7:51 PM CDT

still FUCKING GROZZ

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lonewolf17
Sep 1, 09 2:40 PM CDT

It sounds terrible, meat grinders, but if it is instantaneous there shouldn't be an issue here. If people are just mad that chicks are being killed, well, as odowd80 said, if you want to feed billions of people, this is the system that has to be used. Reply

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lthurman
Sep 1, 09 2:54 PM CDT

What's this "billions" anyway...are we exporting chickens?? Secondly, stick some part of your anatomy in the grinder and tell us how instantaneous it is. As for being approved by the veterinary community, some of our local vets approved of the gas chamber and it was far from instantaneous, not to mention "humane".

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 3:01 PM CDT

@lthurman: yes we export chicken. http://www.ers.usda.gov/News/broilercoverage.htm

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sully4411
Sep 1, 09 6:08 PM CDT

odowd, very good find haha some interesting stats - 8.9 billion birds in 07 - we exported 20% in 08

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circuitries
Sep 1, 09 7:42 PM CDT

ithurman: If you just jumped into a giant grinder, your death would be pretty damn instantaneous, I would think. But it's still pretty fucked up, there has to be a better way.

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kirei_gaisuto
Sep 1, 09 2:59 PM CDT

Um, limited resources? Tell me how we're limited on chickens. Reply

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:07 PM CDT

Yeah seriously, limited resources in the U.S.??? I think not. There is absolutely no need to produce chickens at such a rate that we don't have time to allow the the males to mature. The United States could cut their egg consumption by 99%, and nobody would be at risk of starving.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 3:09 PM CDT

@carbonated: so what do you do with millions of mature roosters?

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:11 PM CDT

@dowd, very simple, you send them off to starving third world countries that would be more than happy to eat any meat they can get their hands on. If the U.S. can afford a trillion dollars to kill Iraqis, they can afford to ship some chickens across the planet.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 3:22 PM CDT

@carbonated: okay that makes sense. Its inhumane to kill chicks because they're cute. Its far more humane to let the chickens mature and THEN slaughter them.

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:36 PM CDT

@dowd, I realize you're trying to mock me, but YES! Well sort of. These companies choose the cheapest methods, whether they're humane or not. You could absolutely kill these animals humanely, and governments need to step in and force these companies to do so. Like I said, at least if we allowed these males to mature, they could be used to feed third world countries.

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DJM420
Sep 1, 09 4:29 PM CDT

ok...now pay for transporting them to other countries......LOOLLOL ....that'll be the day...so if the grinder comes before the chicken, did the egg come after the grinder? or before?

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Reader64481089
Sep 1, 09 4:50 PM CDT

@carbonated, you must be city raised not to understand. Rosters have a VERY limited usefulness to any farmer. One rooster covers around 20 hens yet the eggs hatch at a 50/50 ratio in many cases so you have roosters who consume food needed for young hens attempting to mature. Few people want to purchase a rooster when mature for food for they lack the tender meat the hen has and not many still eat chicken and dumplings, they grab a fryer from the store, bbq it, roast it or fry it and toss together a meal quickly....A Hatchery sells mainly hens, the female and have no use for all the roosters produced and this is a fast method of exterminating them baby chick. As for limited resources? Yes, this country does indeed have limited resources and they are becoming more apparent each year... And Free Range at $2.00 a dozen is a steal, I priced them at $3.85 per dozen this weekend....where you could purchase the others for $1.19 per dozen

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jagerhans
Sep 1, 09 2:59 PM CDT

we did nothing to fend off world overpopulation, and for now it is the chicken and other farm animals that are paying the price, not to mention the whole rest of the world. but a day will come when we shall pay in first person. we could have been five hundred millions of happy, highly evolved and learned men and women with the power of our science and technology available to each one of us, we could have been ourselves the 'wise aliens' but we became a six billions strong horde of stupid, hateful, racist, ignorant, bigot, superstitious violent, lusty peones who can't keep their dick at bay, running short of food and power, instead. and ready to kill each other for the last glass of water. i know that this means that if things would have gone the way I wish probably I'd not be right there typing this nazi shit now, but still I think I'm right. as sad as it may sound. Reply

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jenna
Sep 2, 09 7:24 AM CDT

Well said!

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:05 PM CDT

That makes me sick. I wouldn't hesitate to take a leak on any of these workers if I saw them in the street. I was a little annoyed with the preachy vegan message at the end too. Cutting eggs out of your diet is a little different than cutting out everything made from any part of any animal. Reply

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 1, 09 3:20 PM CDT

Do you really think they chose this job? These types of jobs are often the only jobs in the area. People are paid poorly and treated even worse. They do it to feed their family and put a roof over their head.

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:24 PM CDT

Whether they chose the job or not, they made it past the first minute, which makes them sick people. If you are able to throw a living creature into a grinder, you're a sick person. If I took this job because nothing else was available, I'd be unemployed within seconds because I would be vomiting so violently that I'd be unable to do my job. Sick, just plain sick.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 3:25 PM CDT

@carbonated: please suggest a method of slaughter that you consider humane.

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:32 PM CDT

Well unfortunately, I'm no expert when it comes to animal slaughter, but I would think anything is better than a garbage disposal. My problem is with the wasting of life, not the taking. Mating of these animals needs to either be cut back significantly, or these companies need to figure out a way to allow these males to be used.

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 1, 09 3:33 PM CDT

It's easy to say that when you speak for yourself. Now imagine looking at your children who don't have enough to eat or decent clothing or shoes or winter coats or money to pay the heating bill and tell me you wouldn't throw chickens in by the pitch-fork load.

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 1, 09 3:34 PM CDT

Besides, I bet they use the grindings for something. Fish food, fertilizer, etc.

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odowd80
Sep 1, 09 3:05 PM CDT

If anyone has a problem with this, the solution is very simple. Either stop eating chicken and eggs, or raise and slaughter your own chickens. Or buy them from a local farmer. Reply

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 1, 09 3:37 PM CDT

You don't need more than one rooster unless your farm is huge and then you still only need a few. If you have more than one they will fight and kill each other. Farmers big and small have been doing this in some form or another since the beginning of chicken farming.

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ruserious
Sep 2, 09 9:24 AM CDT

Amen...that's the conclusion I finally came to a few years ago. I realized being vegetarian wasn't enough, and I changed the way I bought eggs, too. Find a local farmer--the Amish treat their animals really well--and support them! It's worth the extra few bucks a dozen (it's STILL really cheap protein) and the drive.

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Unaffiliated
Sep 2, 09 12:05 PM CDT

BTW, there's no reason eggs need to have an expiration date on them. The local farmer who we get our eggs from says that's just the date the supermarket sends them back to the factory to be repackaged.

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Casiotone
Sep 1, 09 3:21 PM CDT

I have to agree with the bulk of the posts here - though it's horrendously sad, I'm not able to come up with a better solution than slaughtering the male chickens outright. The method being used is brutal, but I have nothing to suggest it is or isn't instantaneous. Bottom line is that there is a huge market for chicken, and that as inhumane as it is, male chicken are not efficient or adequately profitable. We're not talking a "couple" of males, either - this is probably on the scale of millions a year. I would rather see a solution that allowed them to live, but this is the truth of what the market demands. I wonder if and what the better solution is, because decreasing chicken consumption isn't realistic. Reply

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carbonated_turtle
Sep 1, 09 3:25 PM CDT

Thank you, Casio in one word you summed up the problem here. "Profitable" This is the cheapest way of dealing with this, not the best. Welcome to Capitalism!

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UrUndertaker
Sep 1, 09 5:16 PM CDT

@ carbonated_turtle "Welcome to Capitalism" my left foot, did you know your grand parents or probably your great grand parents took a club and knocked animals in the hear to begin processing them to eat? Not many years ago and still today on many farms if you want a chicken your wring it's neck like you see the workers doing in the video, even with a broken neck a chicken can survive for hours....iit is FOOD, you can't give them little names and be all gentle, Hell the Chine3se take a monkey still alive, place it in a special table and cut the top of the skull off and eat the brains while it sits there watching them. Food is what ever you can get when your hungry, chances are you have never seen a hungry day. I have, sitting in a damn jungle waiting on some bug to crawl by so I could get the protein, couldn't start a fire of I would have been a target for the VC. This is the real world and not some bubble wrapped spoiled child's play room, get over it and put it in perspective

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jagerhans
Sep 1, 09 3:26 PM CDT

now ya'all know how Chicken mcNuggets are made. Reply

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riffran
Sep 2, 09 12:50 AM CDT

awwww yuck

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Metal_gear
Sep 1, 09 3:43 PM CDT

I honestly think there's a better way. There always is, this is just sick. Reply

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AnnieChrist
Sep 1, 09 4:36 PM CDT

Face it people, this is your capitalism in all it's glory. Anything goes as long as it turns a higher profit. Talk to the people working in these non-union, non regulated factories. They treat their workers like sh!t, do you really expect any humanity or sympathy for the animals they process? In a country where 50% +/- don't give a sh!t if their fellow human beings go hungry, or die from lack of medical attention, don't expect a hell of a lot of action to protect chickens. Reply

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Forderon
Sep 1, 09 4:40 PM CDT

I've been trying to say this on Newser for months. All the outrage against Vick is complete hipocrisy when stuff like this happens on a mass scale. If you condone and create a demand for this, don't whine about animal rights. Reply

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UrUndertaker
Sep 1, 09 5:21 PM CDT

Hell all this crying for the chickens has me hungry, think I may go fry up some unborn chicken embryos or better yet.....KFC here I come baby, I don't want to step on the grass though, plants have feelings and I might make it cry if I walk across the lawn, don't understand how Vegans can be so cruel and eat poor little veggies like that, you can hear the carrots scream when they are plucked from the ground.....LMAO

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kati
Sep 2, 09 9:35 AM CDT

Slow but sure, factory farming is being exposed. Grinding the chicks to death is one of many ways..trouble is that most people don't even want to hear about it, let alone see it. Still some changes are seen. And BTW, Vick did his time for federal racketeering ONLY. Charges for animal cruelty were dismissed which may be why some people are upset.

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Derni
Sep 1, 09 6:59 PM CDT

oh and in China they used to kill the female babies so they could have a male child-crazy world Reply

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piodalcin
Sep 1, 09 7:00 PM CDT

the world will not be a better place till we will learn how to treat animals with respect after we do tt with humans first Reply

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WallyEFunk
Sep 1, 09 7:11 PM CDT

Their animals that are a food source....Sound quick fast. NOT my favorite way.I can only guess the best way @ this time. What's there solution? Only thing I need to know. Reply

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UrUndertaker
Sep 1, 09 7:39 PM CDT

If you watch the hand motion of the people working the processing line they are making a twisting motion each chick. They do this to break the necks of the baby chicks....Not attractive I know but this is how humans have dealt with chickens for a very long time. Roosters eed to be culled on a farm? You wring their necks, breaking them then the rooster runs around with it's neck broken and that can take a really long time for them to die, lived the farm life seen it and know what I am talking about. By them tossing them down the chute and "grinding them up" honestly is the quickest method thus far, as for the baby chick dropped off the lines and them starving or whatever? That is total b/s because a cleaning crew will come through each shift and prepare the area for the next batch and then those on the floor are dealt with. Who ever made this video is hyping it to obtain just the reaction from young people that it did.....hype, it's is what makes the world go round and because of the drama they built in to the video they can be paid a higher price from the stations that air the damn thing.....And the one speaking about China? Hell, they have special tables with holes in the center at the better restraints, you slide the table open and it reveals a basket, into this basket they strap a monkey. The top of the monkey's head is sawed open carefully keeping the monkey alive. They then slide the table back together and cover the hole and the patron comes in and is seated. Next a waiter removes the cover exposing the live monkey, they take long spoons and eat the brain as the monkey watches until it looses consciousness....so let's not get Chinese take out tonight, especially if cats are missing from the neighborhood OK?...We just need to keep things in perspective, it is a harsh world and they have not perfected the food pill yet and if things continue we may all be eating soilent green and you remember what thats made of don't you? Oh, has anyone seen Grandma?????

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jagerhans
Sep 2, 09 5:14 AM CDT

yep i have that documentary with the monkey dessert scene. you have some reason on your side ... women are the most brutal farm killers he he... i remember of some of my female relatives and neighbors slitting throats of chicken and sheep galore, the pig killed with hammer and stiletto and all the rest of the yard grand.guignol. funny, often those who can't really stand to kill animals are men... my old neighbor faints at blood sight while her wife is kind of a farm executioner able to slay ten sheep in a row with knife.

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Berzelius
Sep 1, 09 8:03 PM CDT

They use those ground up chicks to make your dog and cat food. So you should stop feeding your dog too if you are one of the people that is going to stop eating chicken and eggs. Reply

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Reader64481089
Sep 1, 09 9:20 PM CDT

Also fertilizer for "organic" crops I might add...face it, the majority of all food is built upon a carnivorous point of view as unhappy as that might make a few....

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Spudsy
Sep 1, 09 10:37 PM CDT

We need to ship these unwanted birds to Alaska to face one of Palin's death panels. Reply

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riffran
Sep 2, 09 12:52 AM CDT

we have raised our own chickens in the past, and the unwanted chicks, were grown to butcher size, and butchered. Grinding up chicks like that just seems wrong Reply

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Reader64481089
Sep 2, 09 9:06 AM CDT

Grinding up chicks like that just seems wrong and wringing their necks and boiling, baking, frying seems better? LMAO sorry but that just made me crack up when I read that and here is why... Many years ago when my daughter was alive and very young (16) she announced one day (15 minutes before dinner) she was now a Vegetarian, I took it in stride and gave her a ride to the store to pick out her meal so she could add to the veggies already served. We did a little shopping and on the return trip back home I told her I had decided to pick up something for myself as well and I pulled into McDonald's where I ordered a double meal of quarter ponders (she sat in the car pouting) I returned home and took my food out and sat down at the table leaving the other burger and things in the bag, she sat there less than 2 minutes and wanted to "taste" my burger so I slid her the sack. Her Vegetarian days was done 30 minutes after it began. Later I explained to her EVERYTHING is alive and we are at the top of the food chain like it or not, just like the Mafia "This is the thing we do" to survive.....good, bad, and ugly it all melds together

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ruserious
Sep 2, 09 9:30 AM CDT

There's a lot of good discussion on here, and I'm glad people are making the connection between the meat on your plate and an animal that once lived. If you understand the journey the animal took to get to your plate and you accept it, then please continue on. But our culture has separated the animal from the meat, and I think this is why this video has so many people riled up--because we have forgotten that they were once alive. In "The Omnivore's Dilemma" Michael Pollen explains that you can either ignore that your dinner kills an animal and truly deny the connection, or you become a vegetarian. I chose the latter. I didn't have the guts to honestly tell myself it was okay for incidents like this story to happen so I wouldn't be hungry. You don't have to be a vegetarian, but please make a conscience decision and understand your choices thoroughly. Reply

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odowd80
Sep 2, 09 9:47 AM CDT

Couldn't have said it better. Meat doesn't come from the supermarket folks.

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 2, 09 10:41 AM CDT

I blame Walt Disney. In the old days the kids fed the cow and the chickens that eventually fed the family. Now the only exposure people have to animals is the annual trip to the petting zoo or the talking cartoons on TV. Animals have been personified. I promise never to eat anything that asks me not to. Reply

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passinthru
Sep 2, 09 12:10 PM CDT

if it isnt the chicken, then it would be the beef or the pork. dont be surprised that huge corporations would cut corners to save cost at the expense of the animals they are killing. theres nothing youre gonna be able to do about it. anyone who tries will be bought out. Reply

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