The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group, will culminate in
the release of Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic
Organic Agriculture.
“After visiting over 15 percent 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 Charlotte Vallaeys, the report’s lead author. According to the United Egg Producers, the industry lobby group, 80 percent of all organic eggs are produced by just a handful of its members. Most of these operations own hundreds of thousands, or even millions of birds, and have branched out into “specialty eggs,” which include organic.
Details in
http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/Oct10_EggAbuses.pdf
