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The Humane Society said that despite finding that Michael Foods, an egg farm in Minnetonka, MN, had chickens that were dying of starvation, sick or injured chickens were caught in cage wires, and live chickens were among the dead ones, Ben & Jerry's continued to buy up to 30 million eggs a year from the company.
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8-23-2006 @12:26PM Laura said... That's what you get for selling out to Unilever. Big corporations don't care where they get their eggs, as long as it's the most economical.
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8-23-2006 @12:32PM rainey said... Oh yuck! Makes me glad to think I've been making my own ice cream. ...but then I have NO idea where my eggs come from. =o
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8-23-2006 @1:40PM Chives said... Who cares about chickens....seriously...
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8-23-2006 @1:44PM Sally Rube said... Yeah, as Larua said, since B and J were bought by Unilever a few years back, many things changed. However, Unilever's practices aren't much worse than the vast majority of people, as most utilize the factory farm system for cheap meat and produce, etc.
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8-23-2006 @11:42PM beanspants1 said... uh, when you have a chicken farm of more than a dozen chickens, you are going to have issues of dead chickens, sick ones, and malnourished ones.
they aren't the brightest animal, so they don't really separate themselves when in distress.
they also fight and kill each other, so unless B&J have like a "chicken waiter" to check on each chicken every 15 minutes, you are going to have a few in unfortunate situations.
Also, if the chickens each lay 1 egg every day, 30m = 80k chickens per year. that's alot of birds.
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