Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. Whether or not you choose to eat eggs, this is a major victory for animals. This brings us one step closer to ending intense confinement of hens in factory farms.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually. Changing production conditions are bound to affect the bottom the line.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information. These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S.

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