HOT GIRL FURIOUS ABOUT CRUEL TREATMENT OF CHICKENS!! You are what you eat! Time for a change: We need to LABEL all eggs 1.) where they are from EXACTLY! 2.) How the chicken was fed, treated or MISTREATED i.e. Antibiotics-hormones-etc. 3.) Whether the eggs come from a BATTERY hen house (Animal Abuse-where a chicken lives it's entire life cramped in an awful cage, never seeing sunlight) or a regular (and healthy!) happy organic FARM CHICKEN!
Have you seen on ABC-TV's 20/20 the undercover video shot at Sparboe Farms showing HOW these poor chickens were treated? A McDonald's spokesperson say's "disturbing and completely unacceptable." Yet---why didn't they already know where their eggs were coming from for many decades?! Why does it take a video to make McDonald's stop buying eggs? Why does it take a public outcry before they change? Greed? Profit? SHAME ON McDONALD's!! Studies show we would pay more for healthy eggs.... Please don't mistreat our food. We are what we eat.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS and the FDA has already fined these farms MILLIONS but WON'T SHUT THEIR CRUEL INHUMANE BATTERY HOUSE MILLS DOWN! SO WE REGULAR FOLKS HAVE TO MAKE A VIDEO BECAUSE WE ARE fed UP!!!! -And about to puke!! The FED's aren't doing their job! It takes a video to bring change. Put your money where your mouth is and do not support any chicken product raised in battery houses, a nightmare existence for a chicken in Holocaust-like conditions... Do not support any grocery store that sells eggs made via cruel inhumane conditions..... Let's have a heart and be smart: Only eat animal products raised in humane ways.
September 1, 2010 — Filthy conditions at henhouses linked to the egg recall include infestations by rodents, flies, maggots, and wild birds, FDA inspectors report.
Some of the egg-producing hens were caged above manure pits four to eight feet deep. The weight of these vast manure pits had burst open outside doors.
In several locations at both Iowa firms -- Quality Egg (also doing business as Wright County Egg) and Hillandale Farms -- inspectors culled samples of Salmonella Enteritidis. These samples had the same DNA fingerprint seen in patients sickened in the ongoing salmonella outbreak traced to eggs.
It's not clear what action the FDA will take. While the company that owns the farms is not selling shell eggs to consumers, it continues to sell eggs to food makers who sterilize the eggs during processing.
What is clear is that the FDA is immediately launching a program to inspect all large U.S. egg farms. There are more than 600 such facilities, each with at least 50,000 or more laying hens. Such farms produce about 80% of all U.S. eggs.
The conditions at the Iowa farms seem horrible. But during a brief press teleconference held to announce the release of the inspection reports, FDA officials refused to say whether the findings are uncommon at large egg-producing facilities.
Michael R. Taylor, JD, FDA deputy commissioner for foods, said only that the inspections document violations of the FDA's new "egg rule," which took effect on July 9 -- well after the current salmonella outbreak began.
"The observations speak for themselves," Michael R. Taylor, JD, FDA deputy commissioner for foods, said at the news conference. "The presence of rodents is objectionable. We made these observations because there are significant deviations from the egg rule."
Among other things, FDA investigators found: * Huge manure pits open to outside animals. * Evidence that rodents, wild birds, and other animals could enter the henhouses via missing siding and gaps in doors and walls. * Actual sightings of rodents, birds, and bird nests inside the facilities. * So many live flies that they were crushed underfoot on walkways. Maggots "too numerous to count" were seen in at least one manure pit. * Farm workers went from henhouse to henhouse without cleaning their tools or changing their shoes or clothing -- which can spread germs between houses. * Uncaged birds tracked manure from the pits to the laying houses.
Send letters of concern to: David Elder, FDA director of regional operations and your congress reps.
The salmonella outbreak has sickened thousands of people across the nation. It's not yet clear when outbreaks happen as there is a delay between the time a person falls ill and the time the case is reported.
PLEADING W U TO re-think and "LIKE" THIS... I can't believe all you 13 egg farmers could dis-like this? This proposal just means more job security for you all. Plus it promotes delicious eggs. Nobody is saying "Don't eat eggs". Mike used to say "Eat More Eggs"! Let's get back to the days where we took pride in our products. Eat smart. Put a face on it and let's start labeling for consumers. JUST SAY "LIKE"!!!!
MikeInVentura 2 months ago
chickens roaming free to produce enough eggs for our country would lead to everyone being infected with salmonella....you retards...yeah the hens could flap their wings but do your eggs get inspected by usda or follow fda regulations?
TheBrooksmom 2 months ago
@TheBrooksmom The FDA was really taking GREAT care of us as they let half a billion bad eggs roll loose in 2010. Mindy's roommate bought 12 of the 500,000 eggs and everyone in the place got deathly sick. So continue to trust the government to protect us from filthy battery houses stacked 8 feet with manure, rodents and maggots and flies a foot thick along the floors of the cages where 6 chickens r stuffed unable to move or spread their wings w beaks cut off, no sun 4 life. Just sayin'-Moderator
MikeInVentura 2 months ago
look at the jaw on her....
losingzoe 3 months ago 3
@losingzoe Uh-yeah-it's beautiful! -Moderator
MikeInVentura 2 months ago
Has she ever considered acting as a day job?
NoirFelis 1 year ago
@NoirFelis She's a terrific woman doing a great job getting the message across to thousands-Moderator
MikeInVentura 2 months ago