So Egg Suppliers are being recalled for salmonella.. but its not the first time.
and its not the first time this has happened.. OBVIOUSLY…
People can get severely ill from salmonella..
Why do we let these buisnesses stay in buisness.. after the 4 penalty?
Take A Look AT These!
—In 1994, the state of Iowa assessed at least four separate penalties against DeCoster Farms for environmental violations, many of them involving hog waste.
—In 1997, DeCoster Egg Farms agreed to pay $2 million in fines to settle citations brought in 1996 for health and safety violations at DeCoster’s farm in Turner, Maine. The nation’s labor secretary at the time, Robert Reich, said conditions were “as dangerous and oppressive as any sweatshop.” Reich’s successor, Alexis Herman, called the state of the farms “simply atrocious,” citing unguarded machinery, electrical hazards, exposure to harmful bacteria and other unsanitary conditions.
—In 2000, Iowa designated DeCoster a “habitual violator” of environmental regulations for problems that included hog manure runoff into waterways. The label made him subject to increased penalties and prohibited him from building new farms.
—In 2002, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a more than $1.5 million settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit against DeCoster Farms on behalf of Mexican women who reported they were subjected to sexual harassment, including rape, abuse and retaliation by some supervisory workers at DeCoster’s Wright County plants.
—In 2007, 51 workers were arrested during an immigration raid at six DeCoster egg farms. His farms had been the subject of at least three previous raids.
—In June 2010, Maine Contract Farming, the successor company to DeCoster Egg Farms, agreed in state court to pay $25,000 in penalties and to make a one-time payment of $100,000 to the Maine Department of Agriculture over animal cruelty allegations that were spurred by a hidden-camera investigation by an animal welfare organization.
Don’t you find that upsetting?!
But thats not the only upsetting thing!.. . I mean Should I even get into how this company treats their chickens?!
Thats disgusting also..I recommend.. people to start paying maybe 50cents more for the humane certified eggs.They arn’t hard to find!
The ongoing reports of vicious behavior to factory raised animals, chickens that live an intolerable life to begin with, is unacceptable.
This is something I really feel strongly about..maybe you should look into it.
This website im going to post is just a very quick read.. and please read it.
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Your choices are your own..
but maybe you should try to make ones that will benefit the health and wellness of other things on and around this planet.
xOxO
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