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“No injuries” says Michael Foods of fire that killed 400,000 hens

March 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Cage-free complex has been much praised by animal advocates             BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska––If anyone imagined that going cage-free would substantively change the egg industry,  the headlines alone reporting a February 27,  2020 barn fire at a Michael Foods cage-free complex in Knox County,  Nebraska should explode that illusion. The Michael Foods fire killed as many as […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Egg Innovations, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Moark Hatcheries, Post Holdings, Randy Dockendorf, Tim Gragert

Cage-free egg farm fire kills 65,000 hens, revives attention to lack of sprinklers in barns

August 1, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            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 […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Egg Innovations, Humane Farm Animal Care, National Fire Protection Association

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