TAINTED EGG FARM OWNERS HAVE DATE WITH CONGRESS

SALMONELLA OUTBREAK CONFIRMED AT 2 IOWA FARMS
FDA TO INSPECT LARGEST EGG FARMS FOR TAINTED EGGS

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) - Laboratory tests have confirmed that two Iowa egg companies are contaminated with the same strain of salmonella blamed for a national outbreak of illness, which continues to claim victims. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it has found positive samples of salmonella that link Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms to the tainted supply that has forced the recall of over half a billion eggs and made as many as 1,500 people sick. The two farms are independent but share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed. A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee announced it will hold a hearing on the recalls Sept. 14 and intend to call Austin “Jack” DeCoster, the owner of Wright County Egg, and Orland Bethel, the owner of Hillandale Farms, to testify. It is not clear whether either of the men will actually appear. The panel has also written the FDA, which oversees the safety of shell eggs, and the Agriculture Department, which oversees other egg products and animal disease.

The committee asked for records of inspections and past communications with the two farms. The FDA has said it has “no inspectional history” with the two farms. DeCoster - who has paid millions of dollars in fines over the last 20 years for health, safety, immigration and environmental violations and is considered a “habitual violator” in Iowa - is actually tied to both of the culpable farms. In addition to owning Wright County, another of his companies, Quality Egg, supplies young chickens and feed to both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. Weeks after DeCoster accepted habitual violator status, his associates founded Environ Egg. Its registered agent was a Des Moines lawyer who had represented DeCoster in the environmental lawsuits. Environ later transferred ownership to a company called Environ/Wright County Inc., which leases the site to Wright County Egg - owned by DeCoster.


Tainted eggs from the two Iowa producers have caused the biggest case of Salmonella Enteritidis disease in the past decades. Not only in the USA, but mainly in all countries, these egg farms have gone largely uninspected. The factory farms cram egg-laying hens into cages so tiny they can't even spread their wings. When you eat eggs you are also eating the reactions of all this cruel confinement.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Agricultural with chemicals, pesticides and genetically modified crops to increase production of meat and fill our plates with blood is something that brings deplorable and condemnable reaction for both consumer health and for the discomfort of the planet's ecological situation. For all this, a member of the Spoon Revolution is a strong consumer of all the healthy organic aliments produced with respect to animals and Mother Nature. A member of the Spoon Revolution is a 100% vegetarian and does not touch the life of any animal including birds and fish and even eat eggs that are the product of the most terrible concentration camps there in the world for chickens. ... This revolution is to stimulate respect among all living things, to give our world a service and an opportunity to the environment. ... We want to see a world where animals and humans live in harmony and where individuals develop a Sense of Responsibility.

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