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Burger King to Go Cage-Free

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:29:31 CDT

If you typically start your day with a Croissan'wich, go ahead and pat yourself on the back: You'll soon be supporting cage-free farming. Burger King made major fast-food news this morning with the announcement that it will exclusively use eggs and pork from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017. It's...

Chechnya Claims to Have Found Giant Dinosaur Eggs

Rob Quinn — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:49:57 CDT

Scientists in Chechnya are claiming to have stumbled upon the biggest dinosaur eggs ever found—but their colleagues elsewhere are more than a little skeptical. A geologist at the volatile Russian republic's state university says that after a highway crew blasted through a hillside, geologists found some 40 huge fossilized...

Organic Egg Farm Accused of Factory Farm Conditions

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:12:44 CDT

Organic eggs: The phrase brings to mind chickens roaming in a pasture, foraging for food, and scratching the ground. But at California's Petaluma Egg Farm, which provides eggs under the Organic Valley label, hens are confined to screened porches with a roof and a floor. Technically, the eggs meet the...

USDA: Eggs Actually Aren't Cholesterol Bombs

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:46:52 CST

The USDA backtracked yesterday on that whole "eggs can be bad for you" thing: Turns out eggs are actually lower in cholesterol and higher in vitamin D than previously thought. Specifically, 14% lower in cholesterol and 64% higher in vitamin D, the department announced in a press release . One large...

Dioxin Scare Shuts German Farms

Rob Quinn — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:04:33 CST

Nearly 5,000 farms in Germany have been forced to close after the carcinogen dioxin was found in large amounts of pig and chicken feed. Thousands of hens were culled after a feed manufacturer was found to have used contaminated fats, the BBC reports. Officials are now scrambling to trace...

Egg Farm's Salmonella Dated to '08

Emily Rauhala — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:04:00 CDT

You know that massive salmonella problem that led to the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs ? Turns out Wright County Egg has known about it since 2008. Their barns tested positive for salmonella 73 times over the two-year period leading up to the recall, congressional investigators say. The...

FDA Finds Maggots, Manure, Rodents in Hen Houses

Jane Yager — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:20:00 CDT

You might want to skip the omelet for breakfast this morning: Federal inspectors recently found live mice, pigeons, and eight-foot piles of manure inside the hen houses of two massive Iowa egg farms suspected of causing a nationwide outbreak of salmonella . At one of the farms they also found "dead...

Scandals, Cruelty, Violations at Farm Behind Egg Recall

Kevin Spak — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:38:00 CDT

Looking for a villain in the massive egg recall announced Wednesday? Then meet Jack DeCoster, head of Wright County Eggs. The farm provided salmonella-tainted eggs to 15 of the 25 restaurants where people have gotten sick, and has, under DeCoster’s leadership, been involved in loads of scandals and health complaints...

Salmonella Triggers Recall of 228M Eggs

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:20:57 CDT

An Iowa egg producer is recalling 228 million eggs after being linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning. Eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, have sickened at least 266 Californians, and the CDC said about 200 cases of the strain of salmonella linked to the eggs were reported...