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(EDITOR’S NOTE: Warning- The video content is graphic and is for mature audiences only.) Recently, the animal rights group Mercy for Animals infiltrated a factory farm located in Washington that supplies eggs to the brand Eggland’s Best. Dubbed ‘Eggland’s Worst’, the footage (below) is certain to turn your stomach. Not only are the conditions the chickens are forced to live in disgusting, workers at times aggressively mishandle the birds. Treehugger summarizes: “The hens spend their lives crammed into cages, their feathers covered with feces and blood. Many endure extreme prolapse and extreme feather loss, left to suffer without veterinary care....

If you have health insurance in this country, even really good insurance, it’s likely that you will still pay out of pocket costs for “complementary” things like acupuncture and chiropractic care. And you aren’t alone. Every year about 59 million of us spend our own money on those complementary health procedures to the tune of $30.2 billion dollars. These findings were published in National Health Statistics Reports and come from an analysis of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey which was put out by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...