Tag: Chicken Farming Wed, June 19, 2013

• Egg Consumers Fooled by Misleading Labels

  BusinessCommunityEnvironment Apr 12, 2012, by Alastair Bland 2 Comments
  

  Call sparkling wine made outside of France’s designated region “champagne” and risk a lawsuit from the Comite Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne. Call a conventionally grown potato “organic,” and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s enforcement branch may show up at the door as soon as it unearths the fraud. But raise a chicken in a cage, and feel free to make almost any claim to sell the bird’s eggs.

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• Livefeed: Meat and Cigs

  Reviews Jul 26, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
  

  I knew that industrial meat production in America was a disaster—a disaster for the environment, for the people who work in the feedlots and chicken warehouses and for the animals unlucky enough to live their short, miserable lives in cruel confinement. But it takes actually seeing how the vast majority of livestock are raised to really turn my stomach and my conscience.

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