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Poultry and Egg Production

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2012

    Turkey Abuse: Watch The Animal Rights Video That Will Ruin Your Thanksgiving

    Updated at the bottom with a statement from Butterball, which says the action caught on tape was under investigation. First posted at 12:03 p.m. Pretty soon animal rights activists will be decrying the suffering of corn -- all that slow grilling and hot butter. The humanity. For now, however, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    McDonald's, Target Drop Egg Supplier Over Cruelty Concerns

    Flickr/Calgary ReviewsMcDonald's will find a new egg source for its McMuffins.​ McDonald's and Target dropped one of the nation's largest egg suppliers after an animal rights group released an undercover video last Friday of the egg producer's farms in three states, according to the Associated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Cargill's Second Turkey Recall in Six Weeks

    taleitalei/flickrTurkey burger.​ A turkey burger isn't sounding so good right now. Even if no immediate evidence suggests salmonella-laced ground gobbler has, as of this weekend, infiltrated California's stores, the Minnesota-based company Cargill Inc. has issued its second recall in six week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Double Take: Humane Society Partners with United Egg Producers for Chicken Welfare

    Felicia FriesemaEggs from Kendor Farms at the Hollywood market.​ In a surprisingly unprecedented move, the nation's largest egg farming cooperative, representing, according to their website, "95% of of all the nation's egg-laying hens," has partnered with the Humane Society of the United State ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Price Fixing Lawsuit: Egg Cartel Not Giving Consumers A Break?

    Several of the country's largest egg producers stand accused of participating in a scheme that drove up the wholesale price of eggs by 40%. And they did it under the guise of treating animals more humanely: By systematically killing off egg-laying hens, supposedly to increase cage space for the rema ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Small Farms Exempt from New Egg Safety Regulations

    Ah, government bureaucracy. Since the discovery in the mid-1980s that table eggs contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella Enteritidis were making thousands of people sick, food regulators and lawmakers have been quibbling over how to address the problem. On July 9, they finally did something about ... More >>

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    The Last Egg Man

    Defending his poultry farm, Ken Arno faces off against the Valley’s king of rezoning

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