If the news story is accurate and they were pulling corpses out of cages, it's pretty hard to defend them. I'd like to see photos to be sure, but it does sound bad. If we blindly defend people that practice crappy husbandry all we do is make ourselves look like knee-jerk reactionist. I've seen some truly god-awful places that were like that (mall pet stores--places of death!) so it isnt' too much of a stretch to my imagination.
The red flags that are raised to me are the presence of PETA...but that's just a red flag, not a cause for summarily dismissing the idea that this guy was another parasite on the hobby.

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• Pulled from an AP website... - bizkit421, Wed Dec 16 06:13:22 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - Upscale, Wed Dec 16 07:55:40 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - davidfabius, Wed Dec 16 08:30:12 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - antelope, Wed Dec 16 10:09:03 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - SDeFriez, Wed Dec 16 10:59:46 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - rtdunham, Wed Dec 16 23:08:55 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - zach_whitman, Thu Dec 17 01:35:12 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - Upscale, Thu Dec 17 08:12:41 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - ChristopherD, Thu Dec 17 09:11:33 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - Bluerosy, Thu Dec 17 12:04:01 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - Upscale, Thu Dec 17 13:48:13 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - ChristopherD, Thu Dec 17 14:50:50 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - rtdunham, Wed Dec 30 10:32:00 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - zach_whitman, Fri Dec 18 01:14:46 2009
• RE: Pulled from an AP website... - varanid, Fri Dec 18 10:33:42 2009
• The PETA connection - Upscale, Thu Dec 17 09:12:18 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - varanid, Thu Dec 17 12:56:45 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - Upscale, Thu Dec 17 13:16:43 2009
• amen upscale - thomas davis, Thu Dec 17 13:45:27 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - rtdunham, Wed Dec 30 11:28:53 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - Bluerosy, Thu Dec 17 14:59:13 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - varanid, Thu Dec 17 16:29:36 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - bizkit421, Thu Dec 17 21:20:33 2009
• RE: The PETA connection - garweft, Thu Dec 17 19:06:20 2009
• Upscale.... - bizkit421, Thu Dec 17 21:22:48 2009