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Audit of egg farm reveals very few problems
When HSUS released its undercover egg barn video in Des Moines last month, the animal rights organization claimed some of the footage was shot at Iowa barns owned by Rose Acre Farms, one of the nation’s largest egg producers.
However, a recently-completed third-party audit of the Rose Acre facilities indicated the company is meeting the standards established by the United Egg Producers UEP Certified program. Gene Gregory is the president and CEO of United Egg Producers.
“We did observe a couple little things as far as handling that we made some recommendations to change,” Gregory says, “but we’re not sure everything that was shown on the videos could be validated at the Rose Acre Farms.”
Gregory says the other firm mentioned in the video, Rembrandt Enterprises, does not participate the UEP certification program. “They’re a good company—I mean no disrespect to them,” he says, “but we just don’t have any authority there.”
The egg industry has had to contend with several undercover videos over the past two years. But Gregory says the media coverage of the Iowa video was not nearly as extensive as it has been with others. And he adds…
“We often get calls from the retail or restaurant market asking us about this,” Gregory says. “We really didn’t get any calls on this one. So, it passed quickly and the reason for that, I don’t know—but we’re happy.”
AUDIO: Gene Gregory (8:45 MP3)
Tags: Animal Rights, animal welfare, egg production, Eggs, HSUS, Poultry
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I certainly hope Rose Acres or UEP brings in experts to study the HSUS films to determine whether they were shot at other places. If that turns out to be the case, Rose Acres should hit HSUS with a Roco suit.
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Read the truth about H$U$ at http://www.hsussucks.com read the article page as well as the Dept of Homeland Security Executive report under Terrorism tab. HSUS and their “associates” are under full scale investigation by the IRS as well as being sued for racketeering. Ask your Atty General to bring these criminals to justice.
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Other industry breeders such as hog, cattle, and poultry should join Rose Acres in an effort to bring the anti-meat HSUS croud to justice. HSUS does not have all the lawyers.
I think you can thank HumaneWatch.org for the quick demise of this particular tempest in a teapot. They were right there from the beginning, disseminating the information that these videos were almost certainly staged, and furthermore, quite likely not shot at Rose Acre Farms at all, the H$U$’s assertions all to the contrary.
It’s going to take some time to overcome the entirely undeserved positive image enjoyed by these Veganist Jihad nuts, (and propagated by their unconditionally obedient allies in the mainstream press), but I believe it can be done if smart people who aren’t afraid of being branded as “condoning abuse” or “abusers” keep asking the tough questions.