"The nationwide recall of tainted eggs expanded yesterday as a second Iowa egg farm was linked to the investigation of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 1,000 people.
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And no follow-up?
That's odd because people usually do not have one egg.
"Iowa egg company had repeat violations" by Alec MacGillis, Washington Post | August 22, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Iowa egg producer that federal officials say is at the center of a salmonella outbreak and recalls of more than a half-billion eggs has repeatedly paid fines and settled complaints over health and safety violations and allegations such as mistreating hens and maintaining a “sexually hostile work environment.’’
In the past 20 years, according to the public record, the DeCoster family operation, one of the 10 largest egg producers in the country, has withstood a string of reprimands, penalties, and complaints about its performance in several states.
In June, for instance, the family agreed to pay a $34,675 fine stemming from allegations of animal cruelty against hens in its 5 million-bird Maine operation. An animal rights group used a hidden camera to document hens suffocating in garbage cans, twirled by their necks, kicked into manure pits to drown, and hanging by their feet over conveyer belts....
Okay, so eggs, seafood, and meat are out.
The diet is getting pretty lean around here.
DeCoster owns Wright County Egg in Iowa, which last week recalled 380 million eggs distributed nationwide....
The DeCoster family also has close ties to Hillandale Farms of Iowa, which on Friday recalled 170 million eggs distributed to 14 states in the Midwest and West....
As family legend has it, the company got its start in Turner, Maine, when Austin “Jack’’ DeCoster was 15: His father died, leaving him responsible for his siblings and the family’s 125 chickens. Now in his 70s, he runs the company with his sons Peter, in Iowa, and Jay, in Maine.
As the family’s holdings have expanded, so has the list of allegations. The list includes:
In 2001, DeCoster Farms of Iowa settled, for $1.5 million, a complaint brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that DeCoster had subjected 11 undocumented female workers from Mexico to a “sexually hostile work environment,’’ including sexual assault and rape by supervisors....In 2003, Jack DeCoster paid the federal government $2.1 million after more than 100 undocumented workers were found at his Iowa egg farms.
Just a fancy way of saying illegal.
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Related: How to Destroy a U.S. Town
Also see: Obama Administration to Ignore Immigration Enforcement
Wasting all that tax loot to play a big game!
