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MONTH: May 2006
Three strikes against major poultry producers
April 1, 2006 was the deadline by which United Egg Producers was to complete a six-month phase-out of egg cartons labeled “Animal Care Certified,” by agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in settlement of a complaint by Compassion Over Killing that the logo was misleading. “Consumers should now find a logo reading “United Egg Producers Certified,” reminds COK. “If you find egg cartons bearing the “Animal Care Certified” logo still in stores or see the logo advertised, please contact COK at <info@-cok.net>, or call 301-891-2458.”
Compassion Over Killing on April 18, 2006 won a ruling from District Judge Jayne Duncan in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, that undercover investigator John Brothers did not illegally entrap Esbenshades Farms in alleged violations of Pennsylvania cruelty laws, which Brothers videotaped, because he was not an agent of humane officer Johnna Seeton. After seeing the video, Seeton filed multiple charges in January 2006 against Esbenshade CEO H. Glenn Esbenshade and farm manager Jay Musser.
The Royal SPCA of Great Britain was reviewing charges against employees of the poultry firm Bernard Matthews Ltd. as the May 2006 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press, after a videographer for the Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Frettenham, Norfolk, caught the men playing “baseball” and “soccer” with turkeys at Beck Farm in Felthorpe, near Norwich. Said Bernard Matthews’ technical director Jeremy Hall, “Those involved have been suspended, pending an investigation that is likely to result in prosecutions and dismissals…We will take whatever steps are needed to ensure such maltreatment does not happen again.”