Saturday, June 19, 2010
Following up on its investigation of factory farms that produce millions of eggs for American consumers, The Humane Society of the United States has filed a complaint against Rose Acre Farms with the Federal Trade Commission. Rose Acre, the nation’s second largest egg producer, is accused of making false and misleading claims in its advertising and marketing about how chickens are treated at the company’s farms.
Contrary to assertions that Rose Acre provides a “humane and friendly environment” for its caged hens, Humane Society investigators found conditions “starkly at odds with the cheerful claims made by the company, including birds trapped in the wires of battery cages, unable to reach food or water, birds with broken bones and untreated, prolapsed uteruses, the mummified corpses of hens in cages with live hens, and abandoned hens that had fallen into manure pits,” according to a statement released by the animal welfare organization.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
HSUS Asks Federal Trade Commission to Block Egg Producer’s Claims About “Humane” Treatment of “Happy” Animals (Humane Society of the United States)
Complaint for Action to Stop False or Deceptive Advertising (Federal Trade Commission) (pdf)
AN HSUS REPORT: Undercover Exposés at the Second- and Third- Largest U.S. Egg Producers Highlight Need for Industry Wide Reform (Humane Society of the United States) (pdf)
How Eggs are Made in the United States (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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