Monks running Abu Ghraib chicken coop?

It's Ash Wednesday, and with it comes the age-old question: Which came first, the chickens forced to observe Lent or the illegally produced eggs exposed by PETA?

A Trappist monastery in South Carolina is the center of controversy today, with PETA charging in a video that the monks subjected thousands of chickens to stress to make them molt faster and produce more eggs. That practice has been banned by most commercial egg producers.

The Trappists protested the charges, according to the New York Times.

“It’s like a fast,” one of the monks explains on camera. “Like a long fast when the chickens stop laying eggs for a while because they’re not eating and they cycle them back in.”

Would waterboarding make the eggs pop out even faster?

Lets at least hope the poultry had a rousing Fat Tuesday.


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