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Subway to switch to cage-free eggs by 2025

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 28, 2015

Reuters — Sandwich chain Subway said it would stop using eggs laid by caged hens in its North American outlets by 2025, joining a number of companies that are going cage-free amid pressure from consumers and animal-rights groups. Subway, which already serves eggs laid by free-range hens at its outlets in Europe and eggs laid […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

General Mills to use only cage-free eggs in U.S. by 2025

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 24, 2015

Reuters — General Mills will use only cage-free eggs in its U.S. operations by 2025, it said on Tuesday, marking the first time the packaged food company has given a timeline for the switch. The maker of products including Betty Crocker cake mixes, Pillsbury baked goods and Cheerios cereal said in July it was working […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Starbucks to switch to all cage-free eggs by 2020

By GFM Network News October 1, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Starbucks will switch to using only eggs laid by cage-free chickens at its North American locations within five years, the company told Reuters on Thursday. The company said it has been steadily working on making the switch since it began buying cage-free eggs in 2008. The pledge follows similar moves by […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. bird flu causes egg shortage, emergency measures

By GFM Network News May 25, 2015

Chicago/New York | Reuters — As a virulent avian influenza outbreak continues to spread across the Midwestern U.S., some egg-dependent companies are contemplating drastic steps — importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives. A spokeswoman for Archer Daniels Midland said that as egg supplies tighten and prices rise, the food processing and commodities […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Poultry/Eggs

Same standards apply to all livestock sectors

The livestock industry as a whole is on the same track in aiming to produce a high-quality product

By Lee Hart March 31, 2015

I can’t talk much about the situation across Canada, but I certainly get the impression poultry producers in Alberta are doing their best to produce meat birds and eggs to deliver a high-quality product raised with the best production practices possible. Poultry operations don’t have a big fit with Cattleman’s Corner, but looking around the […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Canada blocking poultry, eggs from Minnesota

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 6, 2015

Discovery of H5N2 avian flu at a commercial turkey operation in central Minnesota has led Canada to curb cross-border imports of poultry and eggs from the state. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Friday announced restrictions blocking any raw poultry or poultry products or byproducts that aren’t fully cooked. Such products — including eggs […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Love to eat eggs? U.S. panel now says they’re not a health risk

By GFM Network News February 19, 2015

New York | Reuters — Egg and red meat lovers may find reason to rejoice in a decision by a U.S. advisory health panel to remove warnings about dietary cholesterol, saying that there is no link to dangerous levels of blood cholesterol that cause disease. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee until now had recommended that […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

B.C. egg farm joins turkey, broiler farms on quarantine list

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 15, 2014

A 53,000-bird table egg layer operation in the greater Vancouver area is the 10th farm in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland to be confirmed with avian influenza since the beginning of the month. The farm, in the Langley municipality, was investigated Saturday under “suspicion” of avian flu and confirmed later that day to be infected with […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

Tag Archives eggs

Subway to switch to cage-free eggs by 2025

General Mills to use only cage-free eggs in U.S. by 2025

Starbucks to switch to all cage-free eggs by 2020

U.S. bird flu causes egg shortage, emergency measures

Same standards apply to all livestock sectors

Canada blocking poultry, eggs from Minnesota

Love to eat eggs? U.S. panel now says they’re not a health risk

B.C. egg farm joins turkey, broiler farms on quarantine list

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