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August 17th, 2010
02:24 PM ET
Eggs recalled over salmonella concernsWright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, is voluntarily recalling some of its eggs out of concern they may be tainted with salmonella bacteria. After an uptick in salmonella infections, the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration, traced the source and determined it was most likely eggs from Wright County Egg. The company says it is working to determine how the shell eggs are being contaminated. Wright County Egg packages shell egg products under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps. The brands are distributed nationwide. The recall affects eggs packed in several different sized cartons, from a half dozen to 18-eggs. The Egg Safety Center says recalled eggs are in cartons with a three-digit code ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers P-1026, P-1413, and P-1946. The numbers are on one end of the egg carton. Consumers are encouraged to return the eggs in their original packaging to where they were purchased for a full refund. Salmonella bacteria can be found inside and outside of eggs that appear to be normal. For more information from the CDC on ways to reduce the risk of Salmonella poisoning from eggs click here. |
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Or you could just COOK them... *duh*
Exactly. Stop eating raw meats and eggs and the problem in solved. Cook foods thoroughly.
Thorough cooking can kill salmonella.
Matthew: Seems simple enough. I'd like to warn people for ordering eggs in restaurants. In 2005, I ordered scrambled eggs, they were done in my book, not wet looking/runny. 4 days later I was sleeping on the bathroom floor. Took 5 weeks and 4 "hydration" trips at the ER, I can spit and hit the hospital which is why I chose my bathroom floor over a commode in a hospital room. We found out raw egg was dripped on a stack of plates. I've refused to eat in a restaurant since.
"To protect against Salmonella infection, it is recommended that food be heated for at least ten minutes at 75 °C (167 °F) so that the center of the food reaches this temperature."
or you could just listen to the news and not eat them......"duh".and your right, heat isn't going to do anything.you just go ahead and cook and east them and see wat happens. Reply back to me when you start to get sick lol
Cooking does not kill the toxin that salmonella produces, just the bacteria. It is the toxin that makes you sick, just like botulism.
Cook the egss, but it's the shells that are contaminated. You should wash your hands thourghly after handling the eggs. And wash whatever the eggs touch.
I took the eggs, broke them up in a baby swimming pool & had the twin 17 year old nymph neighbors come over an wrestle in it. Yokes on them!
I work in food safety – salmonella doesn't produce toxins like botulism. Cooking the eggs does kill the salmonella and make them safe to eat just like cooking your ground beef kills any E. coli present. In fact, if the processing plants find E.coli in beef, they have to cook it to sell it.
And P.S. the slamonella is in the eggs themselves – not on the shells! You cna;t just "wash it off".
I1234, you're right:
"The bacterium induces responses in the animal that it is infecting, and this is what typically causes the symptoms, rather than any direct toxin produced. Symptoms are usually gastrointestinal, including nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea with mucus. Headache, fatigue and rose spots are also possible. These symptoms can be severe, especially in young children and the elderly. Symptoms last generally up to a week, and can appear 12 to 72 hours after ingesting the bacterium"
Still wouldn't just cook it thoroughlly and eat it though. That's just plain stupidity.
Some of the mentioned egg vendors have already posted signs in grocery stores that it is a "voluntary" recall and they don't belong in it!! Can they refuse to take back returned eggs? It appears the egg industry is pretty loose about what containers they use, so consumers really can't be sure eggs purchased recently are safe regardless of the packaging names/codes!!
Cook em, great, don't be telling people that have been eating RAW meat for over 40 years to suddenly start cooking my meat – eggs, only cuz I prefer them cooked!
People get ILL from taking RAW food [mostly meats] off a plate, cooking it, THEN instead of washing the plate, they toss the cooked back onto the tainted plate, thus combining raw bugs with cooked beat, thus creating their own stupid sickness'!
The RAW or UNCOOKED meat is NOT what is making people sick – it's STUPID PEOPLE mixing uncooked & cooked on the same plate WITHOUT washing it GOOD with SOAP "FIRST!"
I "ALWAYS" Ask for a sample of RAW FRESH ground sirloin to taste if it is fresh or not, gee, shucks, I never got sick from it, certainly is NOT the RAW meat that is a hazard or I'd have been ill way before you saw this!
My FACTUAL statement – dumb people create irrational alarms – can't cure STUPID and ya can't shoot stupid, either!
Where are the dates involved? The government admits that less than 5% of "recalled" food is actually recalled. Industry is careful to recall food after it is eaten.
All eggs should be cooked well done for just this reason. I was a waitress when young and decades ago most people liked them cooked over easy, but they are taking their life in their hands now if they eat them like that. These agribusiness animals live their entire lives wallowing in poo which is why all the Samonella and Ecoli etc. I hope these chickens haven't developed a superbug from all the anitbiotics pumped into them because they wallow in and breathe poo all day! I am so glad I don't care for the taste of eggs, I don't need to worry about this particular scare.
Ever raise chickens? I don't care if they free range the entire midwest, birds are not clean animals. They're always in their own 'poo'. Chickens are nasty. JMO from someone whose parents were raised on farms...
You are right, The AGRIBUSINESS cares nothing about quality of health. Only Quantity of profit, But the question
should be to all the media. Why do you only report any problem when they control the message. There is no depth
to inform the consumer about any of this (pre recall). So we know not to drive a toyota,Eat mad cow beef,Ecoli
spinach,and now tainted chicken. Where are the Ralph Naders of this generation. People need and should be
truly EDUCATED on how this industry is stocking our grocery stores.
Your argument does not make much sense. If you had any knowledge of farming practices, other than videos and information from PETA and HSUS, you would realize it too. Why would the producers cause any harm to the animal? When an animal is sick or injured, IT IS NOT PRODUCTIVE. If it is not productive, there is no profit to be made. I do realize there are a few bad apples in every group, but for the vast majority, the producers are taking the best care for the animals based on SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, not based on human emotion. I invite you to visit several farms and do a little research, and see for yourself. PETA and HSUS bae everything they have on human emotion, no scientific evidence is ever presented.
@ Alex. First, why do you have to insult someone who is trying to make a valid point? You have no idea where this person is getting their info.
Also, industrial farms and slaughterhouses do not have to allow visitors {even stockholders} into their operations. They say it is due to "biosecurity" but really it is because if we saw how our food was produced we wouldn't want to eat it anymore. Also, the scientific research I have been reading has been showing that there is indeed a growing problem with corn-fed beef, the use of antibiotics, and other industrial agriculture practices.
Furthermore, anyone with a soul should not throw away all ethical consideration of how we treat animals. They live hellish lives on industrial farms.
Alex – you've obviously swallowed everything that agribusiness had told you. The eggs that you buy in the supermarket are from chickens that are jammed 6-8 to a wire cage for their entire producing lives. Even with their beaks cutt off, the chickens often peck each other to death or get stuck in the wire cages and die. The live chickens lay their eggs and the eggs roll through dead, rotting chicken parts and feces on their way to the conveyor belt and to your grocery cart. This is documented and real for virtually all egg facilities. The chickens that are used have been bred to tolerate these horrible conditions better than a regular chicken. Besides, in the profit model, a percentage of loss is already included. Producers plan on losing up to 10% of the chickens.
I am a meat and egg eater and I'm not a PETA member. I am, however, a believer that if we use animals for food or labor that we should treat them with the respect they deserve and allow them to be chickens, or pigs, or cows, or horses. The are not simply machines made out of meat. The current agribusiness model that is built to squeeze every penny out of the body of an animal is grotesque, unethical and wrong.
And one more thing, Alex. Agribusiness is actively engineering animals who can survive in more and more squalid conditions because it makes more money. And they only treat animals well enough to make money. A chicken that has been engineered to lay 7 eggs a week if it is injured or suffering is a money maker.
Can you honestly say that is an ethical or moral way to derive your sustenance? I love eggs. But I pay through the nose to buy eggs from a local farmer so that I can sleep at night.
If we all only purchased eggs from small, ethical producers the prices of healthy eggs would come down and we would encourage good business practice. But too many are only concerned with the monetary price with no regard to the health, environmental and ethical costs of these practices.
I have a real egg farm. one of those big ones. the chickens are not in their own filth. that is precisely the reason they are in a cage, to separate them from their manure. also you can look in any industry, religion, activist group, and find people who are unethical. If you paint everyone with the same brush then there are no good people, including you and me. I do not agree with thiis life viewpoint. I personally know a lot of egg producers. The VAST majority of them are upstanding honest individuals who want to do what is right. do not believe HSUS and other groups like that. Standards have inproved greatly in the past 20 years in food safety, animal care and environment – if you don't believe me you should seek out a farmer and ask them. seriously. we are nice people.
I fail to understand why this happens in the US. In the UK, all chickens are vaccinated against salmonella. The eggs have a small lion-shaped stamp on them to indicate that they come from vaccinated chickens. No one worries about salmonella and eggs there. Why can't we take this same, simple, obvious step here?
even vaccinated it still happens even in the UK it reduces the chances greatly (they are also vaccinated in the US when theyre sold as chicks to the farms) However, the problem is the outside on the shell, it could be some stray droppings on an egg and once on the machines it could spread to other eggs.
As important as I know immigration and economic reform to be, at what point is the general public going to get sick to death (perhaps literally) of their food being recalled every other week? We whine and moan incessantly about the Mexicans and the economy, but I hear absolutely nothing about the FDA (an organization that I don't think has been reformed since its birth in the turn of the century).
Yes it has. About thirty years ago a genial presidental candidate promised to "get government out of our lives". When the people believed him and voted him in, he gutted the FDA, FDIC, EPA, and other consumer protection agencies. Guess whose lives he meant when he was campaigning? Big Business??
And we shouldn't forget a certain President Clinton who sent a memo to the USDA inspectors asking them to not antagonize meat plant management.
Six months later, an e.coli epidemic that kills a bunch of kids.
eggs are nasty and nobody should be eating them! if you just take one good look at the conditions where the vast majority of egg-laying hens are kept, you would probably never want to eat another one. ick!! not to mention eggs are waste products already in a state of decay before they're even sold. **shudder**
Eggs are ~NOT~ waste products. Urine, feces and sweat are waste products. Eggs are designed by nature to provide nutrients to a growing embryo, which is why they are...nutritious. Take a biology class, would you please?
Well maybe we humans deserve all these nasty diseases since the chickens are treated so inhumanely, as other posters have described. I makes me sick to hear it. Animals are sanctioned beings. Anyway when I was growing up, hardly anyone got food poisining. Now I hear about it all the time. Last January I was in bed for 4 days with the most painful food poisoning ever. I dont know if it was the runny egg I ate in the morning that was poached but the white was still a bit clear, or the Burger K hamburger I had–but I dont want to eat either of them again because it was the worst pain I have ever lived through–and that includes my burst appendix!
I'm going to go eat double eggs now. I love eggs. Eggs forever!
dusty you are right except that the eggs that are sold as food are unfertilized – there is no embryo to nourish. therefore it is a waste product in the same way that a menstrual cycle is waste, and should not be used as food.
Thats because the UK irradiates their food, killing the salmonella.
Of course we can't do that here, it would make sense and the Dept of Agriculture would miss some funding.
who wants to eat irradiated food?? you are just asking for cancer
Actually, our food is irradiated here, too. I don't know about eggs, but BEEF here is in fact irradiated.
Pam, kindly explain how irradiating food can cause cancer? Do you HONESTLY think that the radiation stays in the food? Or do you think the food is radioactive?
Or do you also think that microwaves stay in the food after you use a microwave oven too?
chickens 1, humans 0. love it!
weirdo.
Yes Pam, chickens have definitely got our number. Whatever.
This article is worthless. No information that would help consumers definitively identify affected eggs.
Totally agree. Looking at a carton of eggs and can't definitively locate the correct numbers.
Finally, an accurate and unassailable comment.
The national number of salmonella cases rose from the normal 50/week to 200/week in June. For that, the distributor has recalled 228 million eggs nationwide. Salmonella can cause fever, abdominal cramps and diarrhea and usually lasts four to seven days. Nobody's been hospitalized.
My kids got samonella posioning and it lasted for months, ahh, not 4-7 days.
@pam...Irradiated food doesn't become radioactive.....and you wouldn't not get a cancer
ps. did research on it at USDA
nana? because the USDA is honest and objective at all times, right?
our food supply is not safe just because the USDA and the FDA say it is. 28 million pounds (!!!) of antibiotics are consumed by american livestock every year. 28 million! compare that to the 3 million pounds that are consumed by the entire population of the US every year.
something ain't right, and the USDA and the FDA know it.
It's a little thing called "liability". We don't take enough stock in our own health, but other people do. That's why they do their best to make sure their animals are healthy and disease-free. That's why when there IS something wrong with food, it is promptly recalled.
To be fair, there are other reasons why animals are fed so many antibiotics. Cows, for example, are force-fed corn to fatten them up before processing to increase meat yield per animal. However, the cows stomachs cannot digest the large amounts of corn so they are force-fed antibiotics (or hormones??? i forget which) to prevent them from getting sick from eating the corn.
Antibiotics are quickly becoming useless anyway because of their massive overuse on humans and especially animals on factory farms. The warnings we were given 30 years ago about superbugs being created from their overuse are coming to fruition and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
No one should be surprised by this. Hasn't anyone seen Food Inc.?
My Mom saw that the other night and said it was so distressing, I refused to watch it. I would be a vegitarian but I am anemic and most of the best sources of iron are in meat and eggs. For a while I was eating salad all the time but I got a small case of food poisoning a year ago from the spinach. Last spinach salad I had. And just recently Fresh Express–one of the most trusted ones–just recalled a bunch of their salad bag lines because of salmonella, ecoli, listeria. Man, it feels like you are taking a chance eating so many things these days. I dont know the answer.
why don't we just treat our chickens better I have my own chicken and I have been eating the eggs totally raw for years no problem not eating them is ridiculous they are an amazing nutritional food I eat 3-4 a day
Cooking eggs will kill the Salmonella bacteria, which prevents infection. Salmonella has toxins which allow it to infect, but those toxins would not be sufficient to cause disease as a contaminant of the egg. Therefore, a thoroughly cooked egg would be safe to eat. Irradiation of food involves exposing it to gamma rays. The gamma rays are high energy photons which cause damage to molecules (i.e. DNA, RNA) and since bacteria and viruses have no good DNA repair mechanisms, it will kill them. When the gamma rays are shut off, they disappear, like light, and there is no residual radioactivity. Salmonella is a naturally occurring bacterium in birds which can cause infections in the bird and persistent shedding. Chickens do not normally carry Salmonella in the oviduct (where eggs are formed), and eggs are normally sterile. However, if the chicken's oviduct becomes infected, these bacteria will be entrapped within the egg (inside the shell). Eliminating persistently infected Salmonella carriers from the chicken flock is difficult, but vaccinating breeding stock can reduce carriers and help keep it out of the layers. Vaccination is not 100% effective in preventing persistent infection and persistent infections in unvaccinated hens are actually low to begin with. Chickens are routinely given coccidiostats which prevent them from getting fatal infections by parasites which would quickly kill entire flocks. Drugs in food animals must be withdrawn for a period of time before slaughter to reduce any residual drugs to levels which are considered safe according to scientific studies. The USDA routinely monitors food for residual drug levels. In terms of risk, your chances of getting Salmonella from an egg are 1 in 10,000 eggs (conservative estimate), which has been equated to a 1 in 50 chance of getting exposed (infections being much less frequent than exposures) over a 1 year period. That means people living to age 100 would get exposed twice, on average, from eating individual undercooked or raw eggs. If less than half of exposures result in illness, then the average person might get sick once in their lifetime from eating undercooked/raw eggs, and then recover in 4-7 days in most cases. By comparison, 45,000 people die in car accidents a year and your lifetime risk of dying in a car accident is about 1 in 83. It helps to be informed with facts and keep things in perspective, in my opinion. Although that makes the news much less attention getting. DVM PhD
Awesome comment, Bob. Basic Molecular Biology education is lacking in a vast majority of the US population. That is why unfounded fears reign, and foreign scientists are needed to fill in the gap in Higher Education. The onus is on some of us scientists to raise awareness. PhD.
Agreed. Excellent job, Bob! Fight fallacies with facts.
Thanks for the info Bob. Your post needs to be the lead so we don't waste so much time reading all the mis-information. All the things you said sounded familiar but with all the 'gullible' floating around the gene pool it's hard to know what's true. I will continue to research on my own since you gave me more to go on. Thanks. Peace
Finally! An intelligent comment from someone who actually has an education! Thanks, Bob-wish there were more people like you writing comments on health topics and fewer of the conspiracy theorists and paranoiacs.
What is not considered in any of this discussion is the "atrophy affect" due to lack of exposure. There are schools of thought, by those some what more interested in population health rather than the next pharmaceutical, that the immune systems of North Americans are being compromised by the pseudo sterile environment that's been created. The challenge being faced is how to maintain exposure without the detrimental affects.
Bob speaks the truth. I was just about to chime in, then I read your educational portion. Tamara was right, I went through many a comment to get to you? Fact should come before hear-say.
That being said, I do feel that our meats and even our produce are coming from some questionable sources, i.e. slaughter houses and science labs. I thank those farmers who are trying their best to "keep it real" literally! I also applaud those of us trying to support them; if not for the animals, then definitely for ourselves. There are plenty of pharmaceutical companies who love to see us coming because many of us have not been informed or done the research on how to at least try to keep ourselves healthy. Now everyone let's do our research and take care of ourselves and each other. Live well!!
ok that's true too Chuck, but all we have to do is go into any public school and we'll get all the immunity we need.
Sorry kidding. You're right, Being too careful does actually make the immune system weak by not giving it a small workout. Minimal exposure here and there isn't a bad thing. As you mention, could be dangerous; how do you begin to measure individual exposure. who knows.
Bob the only parts I disagree on are "Chickens are routinely given coccidiostats" – not routine only if they get sick They can also be vaccinated against coccidia
your chances of getting Salmonella from an egg are 1 in 10,000 eggs (conservative estimate), – I think they use 1 in 20,000 but you are close.
Thanks for presenting FACTS. I get so disgusted with those that just repeat lies and accusations.
Davidson's brand eggs are pastuerized so that the salmonella has already been killed and you may eat a Davidson's egg any way you want to and not worry. Davidson's eggs are sold here in Charlotte, N.C. Check to see if your grocer carries this wonderful brand.
Davidson's brand eggs are pasteurized, just as is milk. You may eat Davidson's eggs any way you want to.
Sorry for the mistaken duplicate entry!
Looking at the way foods businesses are run in America, you can tell they are only looking at $$$. The people don't matter. Remember the Peanut Company incident not long ago? Who the (!!!) wasn't paying attention? You maintain clean floors, a clean building, and clean workers... and none of this would happen. But... "oops, we gotta leak on the roof, which so happens to be dripping [whatever] right into the vat of Peanut Butter... and well, if I tell anyone about it, we might hafta stop work and I might get fired... so I won't say anything, because my paycheck is more important than the people who eat this stuff."
Humanity is insane... thankfully, the bible already told me the love of many would grow cold and such, so I already know this kinda behavior was predicted. Grow your own food, raise your own animals, drill your own well... and you got nothing to worry about! FDA, USDA... whoever... they're not looking out for anyone but their own and their pocketbooks.
Read "The Jungle" (I think that's the name)... rat feces and ground up dead rats in meat processing plants... yum! And that was ages ago! Looks like nothing has changed... the consumer is expendable... the almighty dollar rules all!
First, people in inner cities should grow their own food, animals and drill a well? THAT would depopulate a city in less than a month! Not that would be a bad thing...
Second, I also read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. Between that and Theodore Roosevelt recalling his and his fellow soldiers becoming ill during the Spanish American War drove Roosevelt to begin the FDA and USDA and their food inspection system. As a result, FBI (Food Borne Illness) dropped to nearly non-existent levels (from inspected food products that were properly prepared) AND also initiated consumer education programs.
Political will has faltered over the years, to the point where the White House has sent memos directing the food inspectors not "antagonize" the food processing plant (in one case, meat inspectors) management.
But, I apologize for confusing your confusion further with silly things like facts.
Have you ever even been in a USDA inspected processing plant!!? If they were truly operated in the way your are assuming they are an egg recall would be the least of our problems.
http://www.goveg.com
One final reply:
To the fools who complained about there being no mention of the date or quantity or brand name of the eggs involved, information needed to identify whether or not you're at risk, please learn to READ COMPREHENSIVELY:
"Wright County Egg packages shell egg products under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps. The brands are distributed nationwide. The recall affects eggs packed in several different sized cartons, from a half dozen to 18-eggs.
The Egg Safety Center says recalled eggs are in cartons with a three-digit code ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers P-1026, P-1413, and P-1946. The numbers are on one end of the egg carton.
Consumers are encouraged to return the eggs in their original packaging to where they were purchased for a full refund."
Literacy is WAY down these days. But, this is the day of the sound bite society.
Fortunately, my Hillandale Farms eggs are a different plant number.
It will take several years to remove the political appointees of the Bush/Cheney years and get real experts in thier place. These agencies along with FEMA had become nothing more than temporary jobs between campaigns for the dimwitted rightwing whackos running that party right now.
You would think there would be a phone number posted so we can call and see if our cartons are included in this recall. I just made some Farm Fresh eggs for my family for breakfast this morning. OMG
Excuse me for not seeing this, but where is the list of brands that are part of this recall?
"Wright County Egg packages shell egg products under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps. The brands are distributed nationwide. The recall affects eggs packed in several different sized cartons, from a half dozen to 18-eggs"
Copy and Paste... I do enjoy technology.
Never mind, I found the 'list'. The plant numbers and three digit codes is what I needed.
I was just browsing for a 'list' that Robin referred to on her show.
Please tell me where the list is. Can't find it either
If you did not read it in the original article and you did not read it in the post I am sure thaat reposting it would not help.
Read paragraphs 3 and 4 to find the brand names and identifying codes with their location on the packages. :=)
THE (LIST) IS ON THE MAIN PAGE
Thanks Dick!! Appreciate the help!
Here we all are, I agreed with Burbank. But all this time I spent reading these posts, I my self could have made
some phone calls to some I know in who can make some checks. But I know the reply to me would be something
to put me off. Because the pot won't burn if you keep the heat on low. But lets turn the fire on HIGH, Let's get
the media talking about something important for a change. Has anybody noticed everybody getting larger,Diabetes
more and more,Heart problems etc. Wonder what were eating hmmm.
eggs r good! lol!
Know where your eggs come from. Find a local source and buy them there. It's better for the chickens, better for the humans. And farm-fresh eggs are sooo much tastier than the eggs you buy in the supermarket.
NOW EGGS? LIKE THEY SAY WHAT'S THE BEST THINGS OUT OF A CHICKENS ASS? HOPEFULLY THOSE PEOPLE AFFECTED GOT A REFUND?
To whom this applies: cook your eggs and other raw animal proteins. It's that simple. Stop expecting the government to provide you with sterile food. There is no such thing. Take some responsibility for yourself and your family.
Mike, the government is highly and heavily financially involved in providing us the large scale industrial dirty food. $19 billion a year in welfare for corn farmers plus vast amount of other subsidies so that this country can have lots of cheap but filthy food. Government policy is the reason we are getting sick. Time for them to change things.
Josh, I agree that food safety in this country needs to be tightened, no doubt. However, it is well understood that if consumers cook their foods properly, separate raw foods from cooked foods in the kitchen, and wash their hands properly, they could prevent most foodborne illness. Of course this won't prevent us from getting sick from salmonella in peanut butter, but it would go a long way to reduce foodborne illness morbidity. This article is not talking about process foods. People don't take enough personal responsibility.
my neighbor sells farm fresh eggs. he just lost a customer
Salmonella is a bacteria naturally found in the stomachs/intestines of chickens. Chickens defacate on their eggs. Salmonella gets on eggshells. Take responsibility for handling your own food and stop relying on other hands to hold your hand through life. And you're a fool if you think that the eggs you buy in supermarkets are safer for you than farm fresh eggs. Farm fresh eggs don't have antibiotics or hormones and their chickens aren't treated cruelly.
WOW! I totally agree my husbands uncle owns chicken houses in AL! Totally gotta watch where you get your info when it comes to farming!read the HSUS buckeye compromise and all where HSUS is tryin to ban cages for mass egg laying chickens in CA!! Do you all not realize if a mass group of chickens are to free range they would eat the eggs before we could!! My daddy has chickens that eat their eggs if we don't get them soon enough!! and I live in the #2 egg producing state!! Usually recalls are done BEFORE people get sick to prevent it!!
WOW, why do we need to speak so disrespectfully and cynical?
To reduce your risk of eating contaminated eggs, stop buying them at your local grocery store. Industrial "welfare" agricultural is the problem here. The chickens that lay these eggs sit in a shack on a pile of their own feces with twenty thousand other chickens. Modern "farmers" have to pump them full of antibiotics on a daily basis just to keep them alive.
Everyone should find a local farmers market and buy their eggs from hardworking families that practice responsible farming. Also, write your representatives and urge them to change farm policy to reward small farms instead of pumping welfare money into a system that only benefits large Ag Corps.
Thanks for the warning. But I'm happy I use eggs from local farms here in vermont. I need good eggs to make meatballs at my restaurant. Josh has the right idea.
Josh, you woke us up. Just did a search and find a local farm 5 miles from us.
According to their web site commerical chickens die in a few weeks from disease and stress and local farmers chickens produce for two years.
So this article is basically telling me that I am going to die of starvation? I have already stopped eating lettuce (good bye salads and sandwiches w/ lettuce) and spinach due to past recalls. Now eggs? This sucks. Although I am not fond of eating eggs in the morning, I do use eggs for baking such as brownies. I wonder if the recall affects products made w/ eggs such as mayo?
what came first,the chicken or the egg?
the chicken
Be a good egg and buy from local egg farmers. You will be much happier with your eggs and you will keep your local egg farmer happy.
Why would anyone want to eat chicken period anyway?
Because it is tasty!
This is what happens when mega corporations run everything. If all the food comes from a central plant, millions are affected when something goes wrong. We need to support our local producers and small farmers. Big business is nothing but trouble.
"Big business is nothing but trouble." Right, and have your phone and tv handmade by artisans on a farm. Get your pharmaceuticals from a mom and pop drug factory run out of the back of a car, and buy a car made by Fred Flintstone out of two logs.
Very well said!
To the Bubba:
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein
Wow lousy research!
All those brands including Wright County Eggs are all under the umbrella of
ROSE ACRE FARMS! A place that under pays it employees, fight to keep farm workers from benefits,
and is clearing loads of rain forest for their cattle farms in South America.
Rose Acres is one of the worst
kinds of business farms, they run under all sorts or business laws, but under farm laws get all the breaks.
You should see how they force those chickens to live. Packed into crates so tight they can hardly breath,
in houses filled with gross fifth, etc...You can smell the houses for miles where ever they sit!
How about what they do to the babies, if they are born male, the employees are expected to kill them by what ever means they can, like swinging them around with a hand by the head until their necks break. Many of the young male suffer SLOW PAINFUL deaths.
They also feed these genetically altered chickens, genetically altered grain, and they have no idea what this will do to the human body…all in the name of profit. Heck the kids of the guy that owned this farm way back took it from their own father, because they thought he wasn’t making them enough money and feared his new children might get a piece of their pie…what greedy a**hats.
I am a farm girl born and raised, and WE never acted so inhumanely,
and treated our stock or eomployees in such vile ways.
ROSE ACRES is EVIL!!!
@Trust No One,
obviously you shouldn't be trusted, Wright County and Rose Acre are two totally companies, much like McDonalds and Burger king. Rose Acre has one of the cleanest records in the industry. Sounds like some sour grapes. I am sure everyone appreciates your personal rant and unfounded opinion
How does it get "into" eggs? I could see the shells being contaminated but otherwise I think this article is bunk.
It gets into eggs because chicken ovaries get infected with salmonella.
Yea! Someone who knows what they are talking about! lol The USDA oversees beef, poultry and eggs. This is from their website...all about eggs...
http://origin-www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Shell_Eggs_from_Farm_to_Table.pdf
l12324, Thank you! Unfortunately, the crazies and conspiracy theorists will be along any minute to paint the USDA, the FDA, and every other government agency as bedfellows of big pharma and big agribusiness. They're convinced that the government is lying about our food, water, and medications, and they won't be swayed by anything like common sense or thoughtful research.