KACU Abilene Public Radio By Daniel Charles Organic egg farmers are divided in their reaction to a new FDA proposal that’s intended to reduce the risk of salmonella infection among free-roaming chickens. They even disagree about what the document, called “Guidance for Industry,” actually requires. On the face of it, the document seems to demand… Read more »
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Organic Egg Report and Scorecard
You Have Power Across the US, shoppers are pausing before choosing their eggs. The informed purchases that follow move the marketplace toward more ethical food systems. More than 70,000 people consulted Cornucopia’s online Organic Egg Scorecard in 2022 — people shopping for themselves and their families, or retailers stocking the shelves of your favorite co-op… Read more »
New Technology may Revolutionize the Egg Industry
Cornucopia’s Take: Male chicks have long been a casualty of industrial egg production. “Ovo-sexing” would allow producers to learn the sex of the bird in the egg the day it is hatched, enabling “male eggs” to be sold as eggs, rather than suffer destruction at birth. New technique may prevent the gruesome deaths of billions… Read more »
Eggs Not Always What They’re Cracked Up to Be
MPR News by Anders Kelto Source: Nick Wheeler You’re in the supermarket gathering ingredients for eggnog and a Christmas Bundt cake, and you’re staring at a wall of egg cartons. They’re plastered with terms that all sound pretty wonderful: All-Natural, Cage-Free, Free-Range, Farm Fresh, Organic, No Hormones, Omega-3. And so on. And yet the longer… Read more »
OCA Sues Handsome Brook Farm Over Pasture-Raised Claims
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia seeks to ensure the integrity of organic egg production. Handsome Brook’s rating on our egg scorecard has been listed as “suspended,” pending our own investigation that we have been conducting over the last few months. For specifics on this investigation, please see the status of our investigation. Egg Retailer Handsome Brook Farm Sued Over… Read more »
Walmart Sued for Selling “Organic” Factory-Farmed Eggs
Cornucopia’s Take: Walmart has been sued for selling eggs that purport to come from hens with access to the outdoors when the hens actually only have limited access to cement-floored, screened porches. Cornucopia has filed several formal complaints about operations using these porches as outdoor access. Use our organic egg scorecard to determine which eggs… Read more »
Help Us Find the Good Eggs
The National Organic Program’s Organic Integrity Database currently lists nearly 1,000 certified egg operations. We need your help identifying them, and getting more authentic organic brands on the shelves of your local co-op, natural grocery store, or other retail outlet. As organic egg sales continue to rise, making up 8% of US egg sales in… Read more »
Cornucopia De-Codes Egg Labels
Egg cartons are increasingly cluttered with third-party certification claims and a myriad of potentially misleading statements. Some of these are meaningful to egg buyers, and some of them are nothing more than marketing gimmicks. Source: polaristest The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the agency responsible for ensuring the truthfulness and accuracy in… Read more »
Egg Comes First in Fight Over What It Means to Be Organic
Bloomberg by Deena Shanker An aerial photo from August 2014 shows six hen houses, several with two floors, and a seventh under construction at the Green Meadow site in Saranac Big Agriculture may see a broader threat in new government regulations. Congress comes to the rescue. A decade-plus effort by organic farmers, animal welfare advocates, and consumer… Read more »
Handsome Brook and Humane Farm Animal Care Settle
Cornucopia’s Take: After two years of litigation, Handsome Brook, a marketer of certified organic and conventional eggs, and Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC) have reached an out-of-court settlement, agreeing to pay their own court costs. HFAC had sent emails to Handsome Brook’s retail outlets, claiming Handsome Brook’s certifications for organic and pasture-raised were not current…. Read more »
