Factory Farm Egg Production, without Mandated Outdoor Access, Challenged CORNUCOPIA, Wis. The Cornucopia Institute announced it has filed a formal legal complaint with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging that one of the nation’s largest industrial egg producers, Michigan-based Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch, is violating the federal organic standards by confining their laying hens… Read more »
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Helpful Hens (Egg Innovations)
Family owned and operated, Egg Innovations produces Free Range and Pasture Raised organic, non-GMO and conventionally fed eggs under the Egg Innovations brand. They say: “Every detail matters in producing consistently great eggs, that’s why we provide all of our partner farmers with barn plans, animal husbandry training, birds, feed, and support. Certified Humane by… Read more »
Helpful Hens Pastured (Egg Innovations)
Family owned and operated, Egg Innovations produces Free Range and Pasture Raised organic, non-GMO and conventionally fed eggs under the Egg Innovations brand. They say: “Every detail matters in producing consistently great eggs, that’s why we provide all of our partner farmers with barn plans, animal husbandry training, birds, feed, and support. Certified Humane by… Read more »
Rotten eggs and our broken democracy
Oregonlive.com By Amy Goodman What do a half-billion eggs have to do with democracy? The massive recall of salmonella-infected eggs, the largest egg recall in U.S. history, opens a window on the power of large corporations over not only our health, but over our government. While scores of brands have been recalled, they all can… Read more »
Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs
Pete and Gerry’s is an example of a large-scale producer that is moving away from the industrial model of egg production, committed instead to increasing both indoor and outdoor access for its birds. At its New Hampshire location, the company has attached winter gardens (like a screened-in porch for chickens) to all its organic buildings,… Read more »
Pete and Gerry’s
Pete and Gerry’s is an example of a large-scale producer that is moving away from the industrial model of egg production, committed instead to increasing both indoor and outdoor access for its birds. At its New Hampshire location, the company has attached winter gardens (like a screened-in porch for chickens) to all its organic buildings,… Read more »
Alderfer Eggs
This brand may supply some of Kirkland Signature Organic Brown Eggs.
OrgaNick Eggs
This Wisconsin-based brand’s eggs can be found at Sprouts and other semi-local chains in the Midwest and TX.
Kreher’s Eggs
Brands with this rating are generally produced on industrial-scale operations that grant no meaningful outdoor access. “Outdoor access” on these operations may mean a covered porch that is not even accessible to every individual chicken. Often, doors leading out of the buildings are intentionally small to discourage birds from going outside. No producers in this… Read more »
Alderfer Eggs
They write: “Alderfer Poultry Farm is a 5th generation family farm overlooking the peaceful, rolling hills of Southeastern, Pennsylvania. In 1998 our family decided to make a healthy change, both for our customers and our hens, by removing cages from our hen houses and transitioning our farm to Certified Organic. Today we have our chickens,… Read more »
