LONDON, ROTTERDAM, WASHINGTON D.C.––Unilever, the world’s largest maker of egg-based mayonnaise, on September 2, 2014 announced that it will lead a global initiative to end the culling of newly hatched male chicks. “We are aware of the concerns raised about [how] breeders of egg-laying hens eliminate male chicks,” Unilever posted to the corporate animal […]
Cage-free egg farm fire kills 65,000 hens, revives attention to lack of sprinklers in barns
FORT WAYNE, Indiana––A predawn fire on July 28, 2014 killed 65,000 hens at an Egg Innovations barn in Kosciusko County, Indiana, reviving attention to a two-year-old National Fire Protection Association proposal to require sprinkler systems in farm animal housing. “Flames were showing. Probably shooting in the air about 20 feet,” Atwood fire chief Mike […]
Proposed federal hen housing standards deal is dead
WASHINGTON D.C.––Signing the 2013 Farm Bill into law on February 7, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama also signed the death warrant for the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments, introduced in the House of Representatives as HR-1731 and in the Senate as S-820. United Egg Producers president Chad Gregory on […]
Fire safety standards sought for barns
QUINCY, Massachusetts––A January 31, 2014 fire that killed 300,000 egg-laying hens at the S&R Egg Farm in La Grange, Wisconsin has reignited notice of a National Fire Protection Association proposal to require sprinkler systems in farm animal housing. Founded […]
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