VIC: Protesters target supermarkets selling battery hen eggs

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-1999
VIC: Protesters target supermarkets selling battery hen eggs

Bemused Melbourne shoppers bustled with protestors and media crews at supermarket check
outs this morning as animal liberation groups descended on shops selling battery hen eggs.

In the trendy suburb of Prahran, about 20 protestors wearing chicken masks and brandishing
placards, distributed leaflets to shoppers urging them to boycott battery-produced eggs.

RHEYA LINDEN, spokeswoman for the group Animal Liberation, says similar Easter Saturday
protests are taking place throughout Melbourne and regional centres including Geelong,
Ballarat, Bendigo, Melton, Mornington, Dandenong, Woodend and the Yarra Ranges.

She says protesters have targeted Coles and Safeway stores because of their monopoly of egg
sales as well as their tendency to justify shelves full of battery-produced eggs.

AAP RTV ba/msk

KEYWORD: BATTERY (MELBOURNE)

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