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  • PETA's attack brings sad end to Mepkin Abbey's egg enterprise

    12/23/2007 1:50:44 PM PST · by stickandrudder · 22 replies · 159+ views
    Charleston Post and Courier ^ | December 22, 2007
    The monks at Mepkin Abbey have supported their contemplative lives for 40 years largely by supplying eggs to local grocery stores. No more. The abbey has succumbed to a campaign undertaken last year by the animal-rights activist group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Too bad. In announcing its decision to phase out its operation over the next year and a half, a Mepkin spokesman said PETA's campaign had become a distraction to the Trappist community: "While the monks are sad to give up work that has sustained them for many years, a hard and honorable work of which...