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“Cage-free” fire that killed 400,000 hens is subject of $25 million lawsuit

January 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Building barn that burned was praised as “victory” by then-Humane Society of U.S. brass BLOOMFIELD,  Nebraska––A February 27,  2020 barn fire that killed 400,000 hens is now the subject of a $25 million lawsuit filed by the Rhode Island-based Factory Mutual Insurance Company against the barn builder,  Henning Companies LLC of Johnston,  Iowa. ANIMALS 24-7 […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Factory Mutual Insurance, Margie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Waldbaum

Will bird flu cut the U.S. appetite for chicken, eggs, ducks, & turkey?

April 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Public notices eagle deaths & higher prices             CHICAGO,  Illinois––Soaring egg prices,  bald eagles dropping from the skies in at least 14 states,  and 200 dead birds found at Baker Lake in the Forest Preserves of Cook County,  forty miles northwest of Chicago,  in mid-April 2022 began to bring the mainstream mass media spotlight to […]

Filed Under: Birds, Canada, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Big Red Farms, Brome Lake Ducks, Cook County Forest Preserves, Grady Ferguson, Gro Intelligence, Merritt Clifton, Michael Foods, Nick Hytrek

“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

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