The Cornucopia Institute has released a report that exposes widespread abuses in the production of organic eggs, primarily by large factory farms.

The study compares management practices employed by small organic egg farmers with those of large industrial operations that label eggs ‘organic’ that have been produced by chickens confined by the hundreds of thousands in industrial facilities.

According to Cornucopia News:

“After visiting over 15% of the certified egg farms in the United States, and surveying all name-brand and private-label industry marketers, it’s obvious that a high percentage of the eggs on the market should be labeled ‘produced with organic feed’ rather than bearing the USDA-certified organic logo,” said Mark A. Kastel, The Cornucopia Institute’s codirector and senior farm policy analyst.”

Eighty percent of all organic eggs are produced by a handful of operations. Most of these businesses own hundreds of thousands to millions of birds and market a percentage of their produce as ‘specialty eggs,’ one of which is organic. Most of the giant henhouses used by these factory farms provide no legitimate access to the outdoors, which is a requirement of federal organic regulations.

“Many of these operators are gaming the system by providing minute enclosed porches, with roofs and concrete or wood flooring, and calling these structures ‘the outdoors,’” stated Charlotte Vallaeys, a farm policy analyst with Cornucopia and lead author of the report.

“Many of the porches represent just 3 to 5 percent of the square footage of the main building housing the birds. That means 95 percent or more of the birds have absolutely no access whatsoever.”

Per Cornucopia News, family farm-scale organic egg farmers will challenge agribusiness lobbyists at the October 25 meeting of the NOSB (National Organic Standards Board).

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My answer: the environment.
Without the environment animals and humans would not exist. I feel that finding the environment more important, human and animal rights are included too.

human rights- countries that value human rights are generally more evolved societies. evolved societies take better care of their environments. we do a lot of damage, tho, when we move from primitive societies to advanced societies because the type of energy available is crude and dirty.

america in the industrial revolution was a filthy, polluted place. there certainly is still pollution, but now there are regulations in place… it is a MUCH cleaner, healthier country than it was 100 years ago (and has more trees, too)

point being, america, japan, england- the ‘first world’ societies generally have better human rights AND better environments, because they have the wealth to clean up their energy sources- but if people are starving and scraping in the dirt for ANY means to live, they have bigger concerns than ‘the environment’

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Let me put it in an easier format to understand:

Party A) Has the experience and policies to get us out of the credit crunch, save our NHS and build public confidence back into government

Party B) does not care about the above but has a policy for providing free prosthetic legs for injured hedgehogs involved in hit and run’s?

Get a grip

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Otherwise I think we just have to keep our voices heard for the animals because none of the parties actually gives two hoots.

Here is the NIH’s page on alternatives to animal testing. It’s not as theatrical, but it is way more accurate.

Here is a TIME magazine article on the MIMIC system. It is an artificial immune system in a test tube. It allows the scientists involved in vaccine development to do faster, more accurate work. It also replaces a few steps in the process that had previously been performed on animals. MIMIC is a good example of an alternative to animal testing. We don’t have alternatives to animal testing in general–we use too many different types of animals for too many different types of things–but we do sometimes find an alternative to this test here or that test there.

Oh! And here’s a NIH manual on how scientists are supposed to treat the animals they’re using.

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