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Bad eggs Jack & Peter DeCoster ordered to prison after 2-year delay

June 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeal             SIOUX CITY,  Iowa––Two years after convicting egg barons Jack DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster for their roles in causing one of the worst salmonella outbreaks ever to hit the U.S. public,  senior U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa has signed […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Jack DeCoster, Judge Mark W. Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Peter DeCoster

Pooped on for profit: pigs, chickens, & people in North Carolina

May 11, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Governor stood up to pork barrel politics, but Republicans overrode his veto          RALEIGH,  TROUTMAN,  North Carolina––Rejecting pork barrel politics,  North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on May 5,  2017 vetoed North Carolina House Bill 467,  which would have limited the compensation that aggrieved homeowners can win in lawsuits against factory pig farms over stench and […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Pollution, USA, Welfare, Workers Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Christina Cooke, James Eli Shiffer, Merritt Clifton, Michael Grabell, Murphy Brown, Roy Cooper, Smithfield

Factory farmer Austin “Jack” DeCoster sentenced to prison––but will he really do time?

April 14, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Three months & fines SIOUX CITY, Iowa––U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett on April 13, 2015 sentenced egg and pork barons Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 81, of Turner, Maine, and his son Peter DeCoster, 51, of Clarion, Iowa, to serve three months each in prison and pay fines of $100,000 each for selling salmonella-contaminated eggs from their […]

Filed Under: Chickens, China, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Middle Right, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Peter DeCoster, Quality Egg

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