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The House passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=87&ba=HF2408\">House File 2408\u003c/a> at the end of February, and it then passed the Senate earlier this week. The bill has now been sent to Governor Kim Reynolds to be signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal rights and food safety groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercyforanimals.org/\">Mercy for Animals\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/?credit=web_id93480558\">Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)\u003c/a> are fighting against its passage, urging governor Reynolds to veto the law. The stated intent of the law is to guarantee access to eggs for low-income recipients of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ( WIC) benefits, who are not allowed to buy cage-free eggs. (More on that below.) However, advocates say it’s a blatant attempt to prop up the caged-egg industry at a time when American consumers are demanding more humane conditions for farm animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each hen caged by the egg industry has less space than the dimensions of an iPad,” said Chris Holbein, public policy director of farm animal protection for HSUS. “Not only is this extremely cruel, but it \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/salmonella.html\">increases food safety risks\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iowa is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iowaegg.org/iowa-egg-farmers/\">leading producer\u003c/a> of eggs in the country, and its caged egg industry purchases massive amounts of the state’s commodity corn and soy for feed. Representative Jarad Klein, who introduced the bill in the House, has received considerable \u003ca href=\"https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=12999607\">campaign contributions\u003c/a> in the past from agribusiness companies and groups with a major stake in those industries, such as Monsanto and the Iowa Corn Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a proud Iowa egg producer and small sustainable and traditional family farmer, I know firsthand just how harmful industrial animal agriculture has been to the Iowa way of life,” farmer Becky Higgins wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/02/20/iowa-legislature-tell-grocers-what-kind-eggs-they-can-sell/355510002/\">in recent an op-ed\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Des Moines Register\u003c/em>. “The government has no place mandating that grocers must sell a product that family farmers, businesses, and consumers reject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the law also say it is anti-free market. “During this whole movement of going from caged to cage-free, the big argument that was given by the same agribusiness groups, was that we should let the market make these decisions,” said Matt O’Hayer, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://vitalfarms.com/\">Vital Farms\u003c/a>, the country’s largest producer of pasture-raised eggs. “All of a sudden, now that the market has made a decision, they’ve come back and said, instead, that they want to use legislation to force grocery stores to sell these [conventional eggs].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s ultimately enacted or not, the law points to a larger battle that will continue to play out as conventional egg producers look for ways to hang onto as much of the market as possible as more retailers and consumers choose alternatives like cage-free, pasture-raised, and organic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Details and Implications of the Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Despite receiving national attention, the immediate implication of the bill is that it could slow the tidal shift toward cage-free eggs, at least in Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation applies only to grocers that accept benefits through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) WIC program, a supplemental nutrition program for low-income mothers and their children. It also only applies to grocers that sold conventional eggs before January 1, 2018. That means stores that already only sell cage-free eggs would not be affected, and new grocers that make that choice would also be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retailers most likely to be affected are grocers that have made commitments to switch to entirely cage-free within the next few years. Walmart, for example, has close to \u003ca href=\"https://idph.iowa.gov/Portals/1/userfiles/184/WIC%20Approved%20Vendors_2.pdf\">60 stores\u003c/a> that accept WIC benefits in Iowa and has \u003ca href=\"https://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2016/04/05/walmart-us-announces-transition-to-cage-free-egg-supply-chain-by-2025\">pledged\u003c/a> to transition to a completely cage-free supply chain by 2025. Under this law, its Iowa stores would have to reverse course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why can’t WIC recipients buy cage-free eggs? While the USDA does not mandate the exact \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-food-packages-regulatory-requirements-wic-eligible-foods#EGGS\">type of eggs\u003c/a> WIC recipients can buy, some states do, in order to keep purchasing within budget constraints. In Iowa and many other states, that means WIC recipients are not allowed to buy eggs that make “any special health claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states it’s even more specific. New York, for example, specifically omits from WIC eggs labeled cage-free, free-range, or organic. In other words, if all grocery stores in New York started only selling cage-free eggs tomorrow, recipients of WIC wouldn’t be able to buy eggs with their benefits at all. Since nearly all of the country’s national grocery chains have committed to switching to cage-free, those WIC requirements may have to be reconsidered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Iowa, critics say the state lawmakers are using the government assistance program as a ploy, since some of the biggest grocery chains, like \u003ca href=\"https://hy-vee-company.azurewebsites.net/corporate/news-events/news-press-releases/hy-vees-statement-on-cage-free-eggs/\">Hy-Vee,\u003c/a> have publicly said they would not make the switch. Advocates say that shows that the bill’s real objective is to prop up agribusiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tactic draws attention to what could be a real issue as consumer demand shifts toward eggs from chickens raised in more humane environments generally. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/programs-offices/livestock-poultry-seed-program\">the UDSA Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program\u003c/a>, the percentage of egg-laying hens being raised cage-free compared to all egg-laying hens in the U.S. rose from just over 3 percent in 2007 to over 16 percent in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than 200 of the world’s leading companies, including Walmart, Costco, Dollar Tree, and McDonalds are switching exclusively to cage-free eggs because doing so is better for their customers and for animals,” said HSUS’s Holbein. And while Iowa egg producers may think this law will help them in the short term, he says, it goes against their long-term interests, because they “will inevitably have to meet the growing demand for cage-free conversions by consumers and retailers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, momentum to pass cage-free laws have moved in in the opposite direction. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_2,_Standards_for_Confining_Farm_Animals_(2008)\">Proposition 2\u003c/a> was the first state law to ban the confinement of chickens in battery cages. In Massachusetts in 2016, 77 percent of voters approved a \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2015/09/08/the-cage-free-egg-battle-goes-to-massachusetts/\">measure\u003c/a> that would only allow cage-free eggs to be sold in the state after 2022. In both states, however, those laws are being challenged in lawsuits brought by other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even with the passage of those laws, there remains plenty of uncertainty about truth-in-labeling on “free-range” eggs. Earlier this year, Walmart was \u003ca href=\"https://newfoodeconomy.org/walmart-organic-egg-outdoor-access-fraud-lawsuit/\">hit with a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging the retailer and Cal-Maine Foods misled shoppers by describing eggs from hens raised in eight windowless structures in Kansas as coming from birds “free to roam, nest and perch in a protected barn with outdoor access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle, then, will continue—in Iowa and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published on\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2018/03/09/how-an-iowa-law-requiring-grocers-to-sell-conventional-eggs-is-stirring-controversy/\">\u003cem>Civil Eats\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Supporters of a new bill say its purpose is for more equity for low-income consumers, but advocates claim it’s propping up industrial agriculture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521216733,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1268},"headData":{"title":"How an Iowa Law Requiring Grocers to Sell Conventional Eggs is Stirring Controversy | KQED","description":"Supporters of a new bill say its purpose is for more equity for low-income consumers, but advocates claim it’s propping up industrial agriculture.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How an Iowa Law Requiring Grocers to Sell Conventional Eggs is Stirring Controversy","datePublished":"2018-03-16T00:38:47.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-16T16:12:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"125782 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=125782","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2018/03/15/how-an-iowa-law-requiring-grocers-to-sell-conventional-eggs-is-stirring-controversy/","disqusTitle":"How an Iowa Law Requiring Grocers to Sell Conventional Eggs is Stirring Controversy","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/author/lheld/\">Lisa Held,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/125782/how-an-iowa-law-requiring-grocers-to-sell-conventional-eggs-is-stirring-controversy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Supporters of a new bill say its purpose is for more equity for low-income consumers, but advocates claim it’s propping up industrial agriculture.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite igniting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/07/iowa-stores-may-be-forced-to-sell-eggs-from-battery-hens\">national controversy\u003c/a>, Iowa lawmakers are quickly moving forward with a law that would require grocery stores to sell conventional eggs from hens raised in battery cages if they also sell “specialty” eggs with labels like cage-free and free-range. The House passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=87&ba=HF2408\">House File 2408\u003c/a> at the end of February, and it then passed the Senate earlier this week. The bill has now been sent to Governor Kim Reynolds to be signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal rights and food safety groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercyforanimals.org/\">Mercy for Animals\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/?credit=web_id93480558\">Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)\u003c/a> are fighting against its passage, urging governor Reynolds to veto the law. The stated intent of the law is to guarantee access to eggs for low-income recipients of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ( WIC) benefits, who are not allowed to buy cage-free eggs. (More on that below.) However, advocates say it’s a blatant attempt to prop up the caged-egg industry at a time when American consumers are demanding more humane conditions for farm animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each hen caged by the egg industry has less space than the dimensions of an iPad,” said Chris Holbein, public policy director of farm animal protection for HSUS. “Not only is this extremely cruel, but it \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/salmonella.html\">increases food safety risks\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iowa is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iowaegg.org/iowa-egg-farmers/\">leading producer\u003c/a> of eggs in the country, and its caged egg industry purchases massive amounts of the state’s commodity corn and soy for feed. Representative Jarad Klein, who introduced the bill in the House, has received considerable \u003ca href=\"https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=12999607\">campaign contributions\u003c/a> in the past from agribusiness companies and groups with a major stake in those industries, such as Monsanto and the Iowa Corn Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a proud Iowa egg producer and small sustainable and traditional family farmer, I know firsthand just how harmful industrial animal agriculture has been to the Iowa way of life,” farmer Becky Higgins wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/02/20/iowa-legislature-tell-grocers-what-kind-eggs-they-can-sell/355510002/\">in recent an op-ed\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Des Moines Register\u003c/em>. “The government has no place mandating that grocers must sell a product that family farmers, businesses, and consumers reject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the law also say it is anti-free market. “During this whole movement of going from caged to cage-free, the big argument that was given by the same agribusiness groups, was that we should let the market make these decisions,” said Matt O’Hayer, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://vitalfarms.com/\">Vital Farms\u003c/a>, the country’s largest producer of pasture-raised eggs. “All of a sudden, now that the market has made a decision, they’ve come back and said, instead, that they want to use legislation to force grocery stores to sell these [conventional eggs].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s ultimately enacted or not, the law points to a larger battle that will continue to play out as conventional egg producers look for ways to hang onto as much of the market as possible as more retailers and consumers choose alternatives like cage-free, pasture-raised, and organic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Details and Implications of the Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Despite receiving national attention, the immediate implication of the bill is that it could slow the tidal shift toward cage-free eggs, at least in Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation applies only to grocers that accept benefits through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) WIC program, a supplemental nutrition program for low-income mothers and their children. It also only applies to grocers that sold conventional eggs before January 1, 2018. That means stores that already only sell cage-free eggs would not be affected, and new grocers that make that choice would also be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retailers most likely to be affected are grocers that have made commitments to switch to entirely cage-free within the next few years. Walmart, for example, has close to \u003ca href=\"https://idph.iowa.gov/Portals/1/userfiles/184/WIC%20Approved%20Vendors_2.pdf\">60 stores\u003c/a> that accept WIC benefits in Iowa and has \u003ca href=\"https://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2016/04/05/walmart-us-announces-transition-to-cage-free-egg-supply-chain-by-2025\">pledged\u003c/a> to transition to a completely cage-free supply chain by 2025. Under this law, its Iowa stores would have to reverse course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why can’t WIC recipients buy cage-free eggs? While the USDA does not mandate the exact \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-food-packages-regulatory-requirements-wic-eligible-foods#EGGS\">type of eggs\u003c/a> WIC recipients can buy, some states do, in order to keep purchasing within budget constraints. In Iowa and many other states, that means WIC recipients are not allowed to buy eggs that make “any special health claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states it’s even more specific. New York, for example, specifically omits from WIC eggs labeled cage-free, free-range, or organic. In other words, if all grocery stores in New York started only selling cage-free eggs tomorrow, recipients of WIC wouldn’t be able to buy eggs with their benefits at all. Since nearly all of the country’s national grocery chains have committed to switching to cage-free, those WIC requirements may have to be reconsidered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Iowa, critics say the state lawmakers are using the government assistance program as a ploy, since some of the biggest grocery chains, like \u003ca href=\"https://hy-vee-company.azurewebsites.net/corporate/news-events/news-press-releases/hy-vees-statement-on-cage-free-eggs/\">Hy-Vee,\u003c/a> have publicly said they would not make the switch. Advocates say that shows that the bill’s real objective is to prop up agribusiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tactic draws attention to what could be a real issue as consumer demand shifts toward eggs from chickens raised in more humane environments generally. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/programs-offices/livestock-poultry-seed-program\">the UDSA Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program\u003c/a>, the percentage of egg-laying hens being raised cage-free compared to all egg-laying hens in the U.S. rose from just over 3 percent in 2007 to over 16 percent in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than 200 of the world’s leading companies, including Walmart, Costco, Dollar Tree, and McDonalds are switching exclusively to cage-free eggs because doing so is better for their customers and for animals,” said HSUS’s Holbein. And while Iowa egg producers may think this law will help them in the short term, he says, it goes against their long-term interests, because they “will inevitably have to meet the growing demand for cage-free conversions by consumers and retailers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, momentum to pass cage-free laws have moved in in the opposite direction. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_2,_Standards_for_Confining_Farm_Animals_(2008)\">Proposition 2\u003c/a> was the first state law to ban the confinement of chickens in battery cages. In Massachusetts in 2016, 77 percent of voters approved a \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2015/09/08/the-cage-free-egg-battle-goes-to-massachusetts/\">measure\u003c/a> that would only allow cage-free eggs to be sold in the state after 2022. In both states, however, those laws are being challenged in lawsuits brought by other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even with the passage of those laws, there remains plenty of uncertainty about truth-in-labeling on “free-range” eggs. Earlier this year, Walmart was \u003ca href=\"https://newfoodeconomy.org/walmart-organic-egg-outdoor-access-fraud-lawsuit/\">hit with a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging the retailer and Cal-Maine Foods misled shoppers by describing eggs from hens raised in eight windowless structures in Kansas as coming from birds “free to roam, nest and perch in a protected barn with outdoor access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle, then, will continue—in Iowa and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published on\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2018/03/09/how-an-iowa-law-requiring-grocers-to-sell-conventional-eggs-is-stirring-controversy/\">\u003cem>Civil Eats\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/125782/how-an-iowa-law-requiring-grocers-to-sell-conventional-eggs-is-stirring-controversy","authors":["byline_bayareabites_125782"],"categories":["bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_11915","bayareabites_11914","bayareabites_8249","bayareabites_33"],"featImg":"bayareabites_125783","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_114702":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_114702","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"114702","score":null,"sort":[1484859478000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"organic-chickens-get-more-room-to-roam","title":"Organic Chickens Get More Room To Roam","publishDate":1484859478,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It took years of heated debate, but the federal government has finally decided just how much living space an organic chicken should have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's part of a new set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ams.usda.gov/press-release/usda-strengthens-rules-organic-livestock-and-poultry-ensures-fairness-organic\">rules\u003c/a> that cover many aspects of animal welfare in the organic food industry. But the biggest impact of the rule will be felt in the organic egg industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organic egg producers always were required to let their hens go outside. But the organic rules didn't define exactly how much space the animals needed. So some organic egg producers built large chicken houses, containing tens of thousands of hens, while allowing those hens access only to a small enclosed porch, rather than pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organic activists, such as the Cornucopia Institute, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cornucopia.org/scrambled-eggs-separating-factory-farm-egg-production-from-authentic-organic-agriculture/\">accused\u003c/a> those large-scale organic egg producers of violating the spirit of the organic rules, and called on the USDA to crack down on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new rules, farmers must provide at least one square foot of outdoor space for each 2.25 pounds of poultry in their flock. According to Jesse Laflamme, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://peteandgerrys.com/\">Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs\u003c/a>, that translates to about two square feet per egg-laying hen, or about an acre for a flock of 20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elanor Starmer, who's in charge of the USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service Administrator, which runs the National Organic Program, said in a telephone call with reporters that \"\"this rule will level the playing field and provide clarity to the industry.\" Laflamme, who also participated in the call, said that the rule also will help small-scale farmers survive in the industry. \"This is an issue of concentrated organic production versus distributed organic production,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a survey of organic egg producers that the USDA cited in its rule, about a quarter of all organic egg production currently comes from farms that don't meet the new standard. But the USDA is allowing them a lengthy transition period to adapt. According to the new rule they'll have up to five years to change their operations, building new houses or creating more pasture for their hens, if they want to keep selling certified organic eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Organic Trade Association, which represents many of the largest organic food companies, praised the new rule, calling it \"not only welcome but essential\" in order to strengthen consumer confidence in the organic label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rule also met some harsh criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cornucopia Institute, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/01/years-making-organic-welfare-rule-way-little-way-late/\">statement\u003c/a>, called the rule \"(way) too little and (way) too late.\" According to Mark Kastel, Cornucopia's senior farm policy analyst, two square feet per hen is \"woefully inadequate\" and is far less than organically raised hens in Europe get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, the National Pork Producers Council \u003ca href=\"http://nppc.org/another-midnight-regulation-dumped-on-farmers/\">condemned\u003c/a> the new rule as an \"unnecessary, unscientific midnight regulation.\" Dave Warner, a spokesman for the pork producers, wrote in an email to The Salt that the new rule doesn't affect many pork producers directly, because little pork is raised organically, but\"we oppose the rule on principle and because it sets a bad precedent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the NPPC, the National Organic Program has no authority to issue animal welfare regulations, because animal welfare is outside the scope of the law that established the organic program in the first place. In a statement, NPPC president John Weber said that \"this is precisely the type of executive branch overreach that Congress will reign in through regulatory reform.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New rules for organic farming will require farmers to give chickens more pasture. Some of the biggest organic egg producers will have to change their practices, or stop calling their eggs organic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1484859561,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":584},"headData":{"title":"Organic Chickens Get More Room To Roam | KQED","description":"New rules for organic farming will require farmers to give chickens more pasture. 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But the biggest impact of the rule will be felt in the organic egg industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organic egg producers always were required to let their hens go outside. But the organic rules didn't define exactly how much space the animals needed. So some organic egg producers built large chicken houses, containing tens of thousands of hens, while allowing those hens access only to a small enclosed porch, rather than pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organic activists, such as the Cornucopia Institute, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cornucopia.org/scrambled-eggs-separating-factory-farm-egg-production-from-authentic-organic-agriculture/\">accused\u003c/a> those large-scale organic egg producers of violating the spirit of the organic rules, and called on the USDA to crack down on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new rules, farmers must provide at least one square foot of outdoor space for each 2.25 pounds of poultry in their flock. According to Jesse Laflamme, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://peteandgerrys.com/\">Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs\u003c/a>, that translates to about two square feet per egg-laying hen, or about an acre for a flock of 20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elanor Starmer, who's in charge of the USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service Administrator, which runs the National Organic Program, said in a telephone call with reporters that \"\"this rule will level the playing field and provide clarity to the industry.\" Laflamme, who also participated in the call, said that the rule also will help small-scale farmers survive in the industry. \"This is an issue of concentrated organic production versus distributed organic production,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a survey of organic egg producers that the USDA cited in its rule, about a quarter of all organic egg production currently comes from farms that don't meet the new standard. But the USDA is allowing them a lengthy transition period to adapt. According to the new rule they'll have up to five years to change their operations, building new houses or creating more pasture for their hens, if they want to keep selling certified organic eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Organic Trade Association, which represents many of the largest organic food companies, praised the new rule, calling it \"not only welcome but essential\" in order to strengthen consumer confidence in the organic label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rule also met some harsh criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cornucopia Institute, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/01/years-making-organic-welfare-rule-way-little-way-late/\">statement\u003c/a>, called the rule \"(way) too little and (way) too late.\" According to Mark Kastel, Cornucopia's senior farm policy analyst, two square feet per hen is \"woefully inadequate\" and is far less than organically raised hens in Europe get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, the National Pork Producers Council \u003ca href=\"http://nppc.org/another-midnight-regulation-dumped-on-farmers/\">condemned\u003c/a> the new rule as an \"unnecessary, unscientific midnight regulation.\" Dave Warner, a spokesman for the pork producers, wrote in an email to The Salt that the new rule doesn't affect many pork producers directly, because little pork is raised organically, but\"we oppose the rule on principle and because it sets a bad precedent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the NPPC, the National Organic Program has no authority to issue animal welfare regulations, because animal welfare is outside the scope of the law that established the organic program in the first place. In a statement, NPPC president John Weber said that \"this is precisely the type of executive branch overreach that Congress will reign in through regulatory reform.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/114702/organic-chickens-get-more-room-to-roam","authors":["byline_bayareabites_114702"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_8249","bayareabites_33","bayareabites_65"],"featImg":"bayareabites_114703","label":"source_bayareabites_114702"},"bayareabites_95316":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_95316","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"95316","score":null,"sort":[1429735319000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"millions-of-chickens-to-be-killed-as-bird-flu-outbreak-puzzles-industry","title":"Millions Of Chickens To Be Killed As Bird Flu Outbreak Puzzles Industry","publishDate":1429735319,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/04/20150421_atc_five_million_iowa_hens_to_be_killed_to_combat_bird_flu_outbreak.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird flu has been striking chicken and turkey farms in parts of the West and Midwest. This past week, it hit a flock of millions egg-laying chickens in northeastern Iowa. \u003cstrong>Update 4/22/2015:\u003c/strong> The USDA now says that around 3 million birds were affected in the Iowa facility — down from a previous estimate of 5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our original post continues below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease has a devastating impact. Entire flocks have been destroyed in an effort to keep the virus from spreading. To make matters even more frustrating, farmers aren't really sure what they can do to protect their flocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some strains of bird flu have been known to infect humans, but this one apparently does not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it poses little threat to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's carried by wild birds, especially ducks and geese. They spread virus on the ground in their droppings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, for the first time in years, this strain of flu — formally known as highly pathogenic avian influenza type H5 — was detected among ducks in the Pacific Northwest. For Kim Halvorson, who raises turkeys on a farm in southeastern Minnesota, the news was like an alarm. \"It's similar to that tornado siren going off, and you try to prepare yourself for that tornado, for the worst,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, along with other poultry farmers across the country, took extra precautions to keep the virus out of the houses where their birds live. They made sure everyone stepped through disinfectant before entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trucks that deliver feed don't just drive up to those turkey houses anymore. \"The truck will now stop just outside the site, disinfect itself, and drive onto the site,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite all that, the virus has managed to infect \u003ca href=\"http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wps/portal/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/sa_animal_disease_information/sa_avian_health/ct_avian_influenza_disease/!ut/p/a1/lZNNb-IwEIZ_Sw_sLdjNBwmVqlUolIQC3ZZSSC7RJHGIpcSOHAcEv34daCsqtWzXB0sz845n5rGNQrRGIYMt3YCknEHR2mEvmjx6-vUA6_540R9hf_56P3OmtvHomUoQKMHd2PVMe4oxNh0d-8OBN7T7M4z93s_y8TfLxf_KX6EQhQmTlcxRAFVO6yjhTBImo4LGAsS-g2uIeCOijCdNfbSA0RKKKCdQyPzck9KaQE0iyjIuyiOEU3hLgX3oE_nmULKiIewA74ltM1VCUxTEej_DPZ1ohnMNmpnEhgYWWJpupVmaJoltGPap-U_zjUcDNd_99I_9MNHxg_UmuMT3KLgAMFCE7W8R9k20-M-uJz-4U13M7mYbdSzIXGtpovVFyqfwGWW0vkB5NUAh31vUfWqb2RQ8Pj7VwGWx4aiqgmREENFthHLnUlY3HdzBu92u29QpdDd8q6xKvYWKCwlFB7fu057zkvxWX0DuK3K7WP5qf0N667767jxqL2Y5mofuV7VyXku0Pq-BqnK5LB2j9-wdXrJyNTxYxXbqXl39BbEyFd4!/?1dmy&urile=wcm%3apath%3a%2Faphis_content_library%2Fsa_our_focus%2Fsa_animal_health%2Fsa_animal_disease_information%2Fsa_avian_health%2Fsa_detections_by_states%2Fct_ai_pacific_flyway\" target=\"_blank\">flock after flock\u003c/a>, more than 40 in all, mostly in Minnesota. Wherever the virus is detected, those flocks are killed with a suffocating foam. The carcasses usually are composted in the barns where the birds had been living. It can be months before the farms are back in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest infected flock, by far, were the 3 million egg-laying chickens \u003ca href=\"http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/press/2015press/press04202015.asp\">identified\u003c/a> this week in Iowa. A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Agriculture tells \u003cem>The Salt\u003c/em> that the birds will be euthanized later this week. In this case, the birds may not all be composted. Some could also be buried, or sent to rendering plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert O'Connor, a veterinarian and senior vice president of Foster Farms, a large producer of chickens and turkeys on the West Coast, says no one is quite sure how the virus is evading the industry's careful biosecurity efforts. \"We're all trying to answer that. There's a lot of speculation about how it might be getting into enclosed houses,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/john-clifford/\">John Clifford\u003c/a>, chief veterinary officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ticked off several theories. Perhaps wild ducks are getting into stored poultry feed. Or maybe strong winds are blowing dirt and debris into the houses. \"We've had some strong winds in Minnesota, 20 mile-an-hour winds to 40 mile-an-hour winds,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather soon may come to the industry's aid: Hot summer temperatures usually kill off this virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It probably will resurface in the fall, though. By that time, Clifford says, he wants to have a better idea how this virus is spreading — and how to stop it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A flu strain deadly to chickens and turkeys is striking farms in the West and Midwest. This week, it hit an Iowa facility with millions of egg-laying hens. No one knows how it's entering houses.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1430244164,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":605},"headData":{"title":"Millions Of Chickens To Be Killed As Bird Flu Outbreak Puzzles Industry | KQED","description":"A flu strain deadly to chickens and turkeys is striking farms in the West and Midwest. 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This past week, it hit a flock of millions egg-laying chickens in northeastern Iowa. \u003cstrong>Update 4/22/2015:\u003c/strong> The USDA now says that around 3 million birds were affected in the Iowa facility — down from a previous estimate of 5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our original post continues below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease has a devastating impact. Entire flocks have been destroyed in an effort to keep the virus from spreading. To make matters even more frustrating, farmers aren't really sure what they can do to protect their flocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some strains of bird flu have been known to infect humans, but this one apparently does not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it poses little threat to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's carried by wild birds, especially ducks and geese. They spread virus on the ground in their droppings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, for the first time in years, this strain of flu — formally known as highly pathogenic avian influenza type H5 — was detected among ducks in the Pacific Northwest. For Kim Halvorson, who raises turkeys on a farm in southeastern Minnesota, the news was like an alarm. \"It's similar to that tornado siren going off, and you try to prepare yourself for that tornado, for the worst,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, along with other poultry farmers across the country, took extra precautions to keep the virus out of the houses where their birds live. They made sure everyone stepped through disinfectant before entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trucks that deliver feed don't just drive up to those turkey houses anymore. \"The truck will now stop just outside the site, disinfect itself, and drive onto the site,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite all that, the virus has managed to infect \u003ca href=\"http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wps/portal/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/sa_animal_disease_information/sa_avian_health/ct_avian_influenza_disease/!ut/p/a1/lZNNb-IwEIZ_Sw_sLdjNBwmVqlUolIQC3ZZSSC7RJHGIpcSOHAcEv34daCsqtWzXB0sz845n5rGNQrRGIYMt3YCknEHR2mEvmjx6-vUA6_540R9hf_56P3OmtvHomUoQKMHd2PVMe4oxNh0d-8OBN7T7M4z93s_y8TfLxf_KX6EQhQmTlcxRAFVO6yjhTBImo4LGAsS-g2uIeCOijCdNfbSA0RKKKCdQyPzck9KaQE0iyjIuyiOEU3hLgX3oE_nmULKiIewA74ltM1VCUxTEej_DPZ1ohnMNmpnEhgYWWJpupVmaJoltGPap-U_zjUcDNd_99I_9MNHxg_UmuMT3KLgAMFCE7W8R9k20-M-uJz-4U13M7mYbdSzIXGtpovVFyqfwGWW0vkB5NUAh31vUfWqb2RQ8Pj7VwGWx4aiqgmREENFthHLnUlY3HdzBu92u29QpdDd8q6xKvYWKCwlFB7fu057zkvxWX0DuK3K7WP5qf0N667767jxqL2Y5mofuV7VyXku0Pq-BqnK5LB2j9-wdXrJyNTxYxXbqXl39BbEyFd4!/?1dmy&urile=wcm%3apath%3a%2Faphis_content_library%2Fsa_our_focus%2Fsa_animal_health%2Fsa_animal_disease_information%2Fsa_avian_health%2Fsa_detections_by_states%2Fct_ai_pacific_flyway\" target=\"_blank\">flock after flock\u003c/a>, more than 40 in all, mostly in Minnesota. Wherever the virus is detected, those flocks are killed with a suffocating foam. The carcasses usually are composted in the barns where the birds had been living. It can be months before the farms are back in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest infected flock, by far, were the 3 million egg-laying chickens \u003ca href=\"http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/press/2015press/press04202015.asp\">identified\u003c/a> this week in Iowa. A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Agriculture tells \u003cem>The Salt\u003c/em> that the birds will be euthanized later this week. In this case, the birds may not all be composted. Some could also be buried, or sent to rendering plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert O'Connor, a veterinarian and senior vice president of Foster Farms, a large producer of chickens and turkeys on the West Coast, says no one is quite sure how the virus is evading the industry's careful biosecurity efforts. \"We're all trying to answer that. There's a lot of speculation about how it might be getting into enclosed houses,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/john-clifford/\">John Clifford\u003c/a>, chief veterinary officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ticked off several theories. Perhaps wild ducks are getting into stored poultry feed. Or maybe strong winds are blowing dirt and debris into the houses. \"We've had some strong winds in Minnesota, 20 mile-an-hour winds to 40 mile-an-hour winds,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather soon may come to the industry's aid: Hot summer temperatures usually kill off this virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It probably will resurface in the fall, though. By that time, Clifford says, he wants to have a better idea how this virus is spreading — and how to stop it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/95316/millions-of-chickens-to-be-killed-as-bird-flu-outbreak-puzzles-industry","authors":["byline_bayareabites_95316"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_14394","bayareabites_14393","bayareabites_8249"],"featImg":"bayareabites_95317","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_94170":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_94170","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"94170","score":null,"sort":[1426813163000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next","title":"Cramped Chicken Cages Are Going Away. What Comes Next?","publishDate":1426813163,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854.jpg\" alt=\"Free-range houses allow chickens to move around freely, but operating costs were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, according to a new study. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94171\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free-range houses allow chickens to move around freely, but operating costs were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, according to a new study. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/19/393848921/cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/19/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, at an undisclosed location in the Upper Midwest, a large commercial egg farm has been probed with every tool of modern science. Researchers have collected data on feed consumed, eggs produced, rates of chicken death and injury, levels of dust in the air, microbial contamination and dollars spent. Graduate students have been assigned to watch hours of video of the hens in an effort to rate the animals' well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was all intended to give farmers — and, perhaps, consumers — a clearer picture of different ways to house the chickens that lay our eggs. Three different types of chicken houses exist on this farm: traditional wire cages; \"enriched\" cages that offer more space, perches and nesting boxes; and cage-free houses in which chickens get to move around freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An industry consortium called the Coalition for a Sustainable Egg Supply funded \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/final-results\">this study\u003c/a>, mainly because chicken housing is now controversial. California \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/29/373802858/how-californias-new-rules-are-scrambling-the-egg-industry\">has banned\u003c/a> eggs from chickens that don't have enough space to turn around or flap their wings. Other states are considering similar laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The egg industry is meanwhile looking for alternatives that won't be declared illegal. This study is a close look at a couple of those alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conventional cage system is not going to be the system of the future,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ans.msu.edu/people/dr_janice_swanson\">Janice Swanson\u003c/a>, a professor of animal behavior and welfare at Michigan State University and co-director of the chicken housing study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition away from cages, in fact, is already underway. \"Very few conventional cage systems are being installed\" on egg farms these days, says \u003ca href=\"http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mench/\">Joy Mench\u003c/a>, a professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis, the study's other co-director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.calmainefoods.com/company/about-us.aspx\">Cal-Maine Foods\u003c/a>, for instance, the largest producer of shell eggs in the U.S., is no longer building new chicken houses with traditional cages, says Matt Arrowsmith, the company's vice president for purchasing. Traditional cages still account for 90 percent of the company's production, but when those houses wear out, they will be replaced with either cage-free houses or enriched cages, sometimes called colony cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890.jpg\" alt=\"Chickens at the JS West farm in Atwater, Calif., stand in an enriched, or colony, cage system that gives them a darkened area for nesting, in 2011. Photo: Jill Benson/AP\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94172\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-320x206.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens at the JS West farm in Atwater, Calif., stand in an enriched, or colony, cage system that gives them a darkened area for nesting, in 2011. Photo: Jill Benson/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swanson and Mench began presenting \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/final-results\">results\u003c/a> from their study this week to egg producers, processors and marketers. \"Our goal is to identify the trade-offs between the three systems for them to consider as they're making decisions about what systems to install,\" Swanson says. Scientific reports also are appearing in the journal \u003ca href=\"http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/94/3/473.full\">Poultry Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to this experiment, some trade-offs are clear. Cage-free houses allow chickens a wider range of natural behavior. Their bones also were stronger, as a result of being able to move about freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, in part because of that freedom, \"there's more potential for injury,\" Swanson says. This is one reason more chickens died in the cage-free house — more than 10 percent, compared with about 4 percent in the cages. Most died from disease, but some also died because of injury or from being hen-pecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air in the cage-free house was full of dust, but \"it didn't seem to have any effect on the hens,\" says Mench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the perspective of \u003ca href=\"http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/94/3/552.full.pdf+html\">economic efficiency\u003c/a>, though, cages were a clear winner. Chickens in both traditional and enriched cages produced more eggs and produced them more efficiently, compared with cage-free houses. Operating costs of the cage-free house were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, and even more when the capital cost of building the house was included. Cage-free production was expensive in part because the farmer had to pay more for young hens, or pullets, that had been raised in a cage-free environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, egg producers also are responding to consumer demand, and \"there is a growing demand for cage-free,\" says Arrowsmith of Cal-Maine Foods. Most consumers, though, still buy the cheapest eggs on the shelf, Arrowsmith says, and that will keep keep most chickens in some sort of cage for a long time to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal-Maine Foods is hedging its bets, producing eggs that carry a variety of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/23/370377902/farm-fresh-natural-eggs-not-always-what-they-re-cracked-up-to-be\">labels\u003c/a>, depending on how they are housed and fed: cage-free, omega-3 or vegetarian. \"The more diverse products that you can put on the shelf, the more likely it is that a consumer will want one of them,\" Arrowsmith says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The results are in from a long-running study of three different ways to house egg-laying chickens. It found that more hens survive in cages, and cages are cheaper. But consumers prefer cage-free eggs.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1426813163,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":806},"headData":{"title":"Cramped Chicken Cages Are Going Away. What Comes Next? | KQED","description":"The results are in from a long-running study of three different ways to house egg-laying chickens. It found that more hens survive in cages, and cages are cheaper. But consumers prefer cage-free eggs.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Cramped Chicken Cages Are Going Away. What Comes Next?","datePublished":"2015-03-20T00:59:23.000Z","dateModified":"2015-03-20T00:59:23.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"94170 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=94170","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/03/19/cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next/","disqusTitle":"Cramped Chicken Cages Are Going Away. What Comes Next?","nprByline":"Dan Charles","nprStoryId":"393848921","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=393848921&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/19/393848921/cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next?ft=nprml&f=393848921","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:57:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:31:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:57:05 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/94170/cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854.jpg\" alt=\"Free-range houses allow chickens to move around freely, but operating costs were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, according to a new study. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94171\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/img_5767_custom-4e3e5748ff97e2e0e516d721c0af9175ab72b880-e1426812959854-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free-range houses allow chickens to move around freely, but operating costs were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, according to a new study. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/19/393848921/cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/19/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, at an undisclosed location in the Upper Midwest, a large commercial egg farm has been probed with every tool of modern science. Researchers have collected data on feed consumed, eggs produced, rates of chicken death and injury, levels of dust in the air, microbial contamination and dollars spent. Graduate students have been assigned to watch hours of video of the hens in an effort to rate the animals' well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was all intended to give farmers — and, perhaps, consumers — a clearer picture of different ways to house the chickens that lay our eggs. Three different types of chicken houses exist on this farm: traditional wire cages; \"enriched\" cages that offer more space, perches and nesting boxes; and cage-free houses in which chickens get to move around freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An industry consortium called the Coalition for a Sustainable Egg Supply funded \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/final-results\">this study\u003c/a>, mainly because chicken housing is now controversial. California \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/29/373802858/how-californias-new-rules-are-scrambling-the-egg-industry\">has banned\u003c/a> eggs from chickens that don't have enough space to turn around or flap their wings. Other states are considering similar laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The egg industry is meanwhile looking for alternatives that won't be declared illegal. This study is a close look at a couple of those alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conventional cage system is not going to be the system of the future,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ans.msu.edu/people/dr_janice_swanson\">Janice Swanson\u003c/a>, a professor of animal behavior and welfare at Michigan State University and co-director of the chicken housing study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition away from cages, in fact, is already underway. \"Very few conventional cage systems are being installed\" on egg farms these days, says \u003ca href=\"http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mench/\">Joy Mench\u003c/a>, a professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis, the study's other co-director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.calmainefoods.com/company/about-us.aspx\">Cal-Maine Foods\u003c/a>, for instance, the largest producer of shell eggs in the U.S., is no longer building new chicken houses with traditional cages, says Matt Arrowsmith, the company's vice president for purchasing. Traditional cages still account for 90 percent of the company's production, but when those houses wear out, they will be replaced with either cage-free houses or enriched cages, sometimes called colony cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890.jpg\" alt=\"Chickens at the JS West farm in Atwater, Calif., stand in an enriched, or colony, cage system that gives them a darkened area for nesting, in 2011. Photo: Jill Benson/AP\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94172\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ap100818112508_custom-95148d8274c3dcca8d26ebb855ff3d163cad8b53-e1426812920890-320x206.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens at the JS West farm in Atwater, Calif., stand in an enriched, or colony, cage system that gives them a darkened area for nesting, in 2011. Photo: Jill Benson/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swanson and Mench began presenting \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/final-results\">results\u003c/a> from their study this week to egg producers, processors and marketers. \"Our goal is to identify the trade-offs between the three systems for them to consider as they're making decisions about what systems to install,\" Swanson says. Scientific reports also are appearing in the journal \u003ca href=\"http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/94/3/473.full\">Poultry Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to this experiment, some trade-offs are clear. Cage-free houses allow chickens a wider range of natural behavior. Their bones also were stronger, as a result of being able to move about freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, in part because of that freedom, \"there's more potential for injury,\" Swanson says. This is one reason more chickens died in the cage-free house — more than 10 percent, compared with about 4 percent in the cages. Most died from disease, but some also died because of injury or from being hen-pecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air in the cage-free house was full of dust, but \"it didn't seem to have any effect on the hens,\" says Mench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the perspective of \u003ca href=\"http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/94/3/552.full.pdf+html\">economic efficiency\u003c/a>, though, cages were a clear winner. Chickens in both traditional and enriched cages produced more eggs and produced them more efficiently, compared with cage-free houses. Operating costs of the cage-free house were 23 percent higher than for traditional cages, and even more when the capital cost of building the house was included. Cage-free production was expensive in part because the farmer had to pay more for young hens, or pullets, that had been raised in a cage-free environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, egg producers also are responding to consumer demand, and \"there is a growing demand for cage-free,\" says Arrowsmith of Cal-Maine Foods. Most consumers, though, still buy the cheapest eggs on the shelf, Arrowsmith says, and that will keep keep most chickens in some sort of cage for a long time to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal-Maine Foods is hedging its bets, producing eggs that carry a variety of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/23/370377902/farm-fresh-natural-eggs-not-always-what-they-re-cracked-up-to-be\">labels\u003c/a>, depending on how they are housed and fed: cage-free, omega-3 or vegetarian. \"The more diverse products that you can put on the shelf, the more likely it is that a consumer will want one of them,\" Arrowsmith says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/94170/cramped-chicken-cages-are-going-away-what-comes-next","authors":["byline_bayareabites_94170"],"categories":["bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_99","bayareabites_11915","bayareabites_11914","bayareabites_8249","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_33","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_94171","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_65125":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_65125","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"65125","score":null,"sort":[1373556757000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens","title":"Hipsters Off The Hook: The Truth Behind Abandoned Backyard Chickens ","publishDate":1373556757,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_65132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/chicken.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/chicken-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Don't leave me: Many cities allow hens but not roosters. Photo: iStockphoto.com\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65132\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don't leave me: Many cities allow hens but not roosters. Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/10/200699728/hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the headlines this week, I almost expected to see a hen clucking outside NPR's headquarters this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chickens Flood Shelters As Backyard Farmers Call It Quits,\" \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/09/chickens-flood-shelters-as-backyard-farmers-call-it-quits/\">exclaimed\u003c/a>. \"Hipster farmers abandoning urban chickens because they're too much work,\" Canada's \u003cem>National Post\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/09/hipster-farmers-abandoning-urban-chickens-because-theyre-too-much-work/\">wrote\u003c/a>. As the headlines would have it, hens are getting dumped once their egg-laying years are over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are hipsters really the fair-weather farmers they're being portrayed as? Not necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A closer look at at the backyard farming industry reveals another underlying cause for the spike in unwanted chickens. And it's not the hens that are the major problem but the roosters, says Susie Coston of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmsanctuary.org/\">Farm Sanctuary\u003c/a> in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/24/175057536/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella\">Urban chicken farming\u003c/a> has exploded in popularity over the past few years. (Who doesn't want a pet that makes your breakfast?) In response, many cities have made it legal for residents to keep egg-laying hens, but they still prohibit roosters. The gentlemen are just too loud for urban living, Coston says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's where the problem begins. When urban farmers order hens online, as is popular, suppliers can't tell 100 percent if they're sending a lady or a gentleman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that means many city dwellers end up getting roosters, when they really wanted hens. Once the poor fellows start crowing, their fate is sealed: It's either the frying pan or the local humane society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Roosters are being treated very differently from hens,\" Coston says. \"We probably get 400 or 500 roosters each year at just one of our sanctuaries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for urban dwellers who want to raise backyard chickens, there's a way around this mystery-chicken-sex problem: Adopt an adult chicken — or better yet, adopt a hen from a factory farm, says John Reese of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/site/c.aiIOI3NLKgKYF/b.7628477/k.3BFA/Marin_Humane_Society__Adopt_a_pet.htm\">Marin Humane Society\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animal adoption facility he runs in Novato, Calif., gets most of its chickens from factory farms. \"They're called spent hens,\" he says. The little ladies still have some egg-laying left in them, but they're just not as productive as younger birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The factories slaughter most of them for food,\" Reese says, \"but we save some of them from the soup and [let them] enjoy the leisure life in Marin County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese also says he hasn't seen an uptick in abandoned birds. \"We literally have the extreme opposite situation here on the north side of San Francisco,\" he tells The Salt. \"Over the past few years, we've just had a steady rise in chicken adoptions.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Unwanted chicks are filling up some city shelters around the country, and some activists are blaming fair-weather hipster farmers. But a closer look reveals another root cause: When urban farmers order hens, they often end up instead with roosters — illegal in many cities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1373556757,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":458},"headData":{"title":"Hipsters Off The Hook: The Truth Behind Abandoned Backyard Chickens | KQED","description":"Unwanted chicks are filling up some city shelters around the country, and some activists are blaming fair-weather hipster farmers. But a closer look reveals another root cause: When urban farmers order hens, they often end up instead with roosters — illegal in many cities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Hipsters Off The Hook: The Truth Behind Abandoned Backyard Chickens ","datePublished":"2013-07-11T15:32:37.000Z","dateModified":"2013-07-11T15:32:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"65125 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=65125","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/11/hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens/","disqusTitle":"Hipsters Off The Hook: The Truth Behind Abandoned Backyard Chickens ","nprByline":"Michaeleen Doucleff","nprStoryId":"200699728","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=200699728&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/10/200699728/hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens?ft=3&f=200699728","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:02:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:14:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:02:06 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/65125/hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_65132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/chicken.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/chicken-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Don't leave me: Many cities allow hens but not roosters. Photo: iStockphoto.com\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65132\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don't leave me: Many cities allow hens but not roosters. Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/10/200699728/hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the headlines this week, I almost expected to see a hen clucking outside NPR's headquarters this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chickens Flood Shelters As Backyard Farmers Call It Quits,\" \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/09/chickens-flood-shelters-as-backyard-farmers-call-it-quits/\">exclaimed\u003c/a>. \"Hipster farmers abandoning urban chickens because they're too much work,\" Canada's \u003cem>National Post\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/09/hipster-farmers-abandoning-urban-chickens-because-theyre-too-much-work/\">wrote\u003c/a>. As the headlines would have it, hens are getting dumped once their egg-laying years are over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are hipsters really the fair-weather farmers they're being portrayed as? Not necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A closer look at at the backyard farming industry reveals another underlying cause for the spike in unwanted chickens. And it's not the hens that are the major problem but the roosters, says Susie Coston of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmsanctuary.org/\">Farm Sanctuary\u003c/a> in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/24/175057536/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella\">Urban chicken farming\u003c/a> has exploded in popularity over the past few years. (Who doesn't want a pet that makes your breakfast?) In response, many cities have made it legal for residents to keep egg-laying hens, but they still prohibit roosters. The gentlemen are just too loud for urban living, Coston says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's where the problem begins. When urban farmers order hens online, as is popular, suppliers can't tell 100 percent if they're sending a lady or a gentleman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that means many city dwellers end up getting roosters, when they really wanted hens. Once the poor fellows start crowing, their fate is sealed: It's either the frying pan or the local humane society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Roosters are being treated very differently from hens,\" Coston says. \"We probably get 400 or 500 roosters each year at just one of our sanctuaries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for urban dwellers who want to raise backyard chickens, there's a way around this mystery-chicken-sex problem: Adopt an adult chicken — or better yet, adopt a hen from a factory farm, says John Reese of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/site/c.aiIOI3NLKgKYF/b.7628477/k.3BFA/Marin_Humane_Society__Adopt_a_pet.htm\">Marin Humane Society\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animal adoption facility he runs in Novato, Calif., gets most of its chickens from factory farms. \"They're called spent hens,\" he says. The little ladies still have some egg-laying left in them, but they're just not as productive as younger birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The factories slaughter most of them for food,\" Reese says, \"but we save some of them from the soup and [let them] enjoy the leisure life in Marin County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese also says he hasn't seen an uptick in abandoned birds. \"We literally have the extreme opposite situation here on the north side of San Francisco,\" he tells The Salt. \"Over the past few years, we've just had a steady rise in chicken adoptions.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/65125/hipsters-off-the-hook-the-truth-behind-abandoned-backyard-chickens","authors":["byline_bayareabites_65125"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_10566","bayareabites_8249","bayareabites_11985","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_3702","bayareabites_9352"],"featImg":"bayareabites_65133","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_64253":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_64253","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"64253","score":null,"sort":[1372372735000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens","title":"What The Rise Of Cage-Free Eggs Means For Chickens","publishDate":1372372735,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cage-free chickens in Harold Sensenig's barn near Hershey, Pa., get to roam and perch on steel rods, but they don't go outside. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64265\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cage-free chickens in Harold Sensenig's barn near Hershey, Pa., get to roam and perch on steel rods, but they don't go outside. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/27/195639341/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/06/20130627_atc_07.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/27/195639341/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage. Animal welfare groups have long been \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/battery_cages.html\">campaigning\u003c/a> against these cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are succeeding, and this is where the change starts. In recent years, several big food companies have promised to switch to \"cage-free\" eggs. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/sustainablesourcing/eggs-dairy/\">Unilever\u003c/a>, which sells Hellmann's mayonnaise, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.aramark.com/PressRoom/PressReleases/cage-free-egg-commitment.aspx\">Aramark\u003c/a>, which supplies food to big companies, colleges and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those promises set off a supply chain reaction. \"There weren't enough cage-free eggs for us to do Hellmann's Light mayonnaise, initially,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/pub/douglas-balentine/0/635/6b1\">Doug Balentine\u003c/a>, director of nutrition and health for Unilever North America. \"It's going to take us about five years of working with egg suppliers so that we can convert all the egg farmers, just to supply the eggs for Hellmann's mayonnaise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a brand-new pair of chicken houses tucked into the rolling farmland near Hershey, Pa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of those houses, 18,000 chickens are milling around on the floor. Some are perched on metal bars. A few are madly pecking away at the plastic covers on my shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chickens just arrived here a few weeks ago. So did the farmer, a taciturn young man named Harold Sensenig, who grew up just down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Been living here for about four weeks now. Moved in a week before the chickens came. Got married two weeks before that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These chickens aren't free-range or organic; they don't go outside. But they do get to roam around inside the house, which makes them cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensenig built this style of chicken house — and a bank financed it — on the strength of those promises by Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64266\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sensenig has a deal with a local egg buyer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saudereggs.com/\">Sauder's Eggs\u003c/a>, which is paying twice the going rate for cage-free eggs. Sauder Eggs, in turn, supplies those eggs to Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the demand that's driving it,\" says Paul Sauder, who owns Sauder's Eggs. \"I mean, I wouldn't take the risk of paying double for these eggs, versus commodity eggs, if I didn't have the demand pushing on the other side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, it's estimated that about 8 percent of all eggs come from cage-free houses. For Sauder's business, it's 10 or 12 percent, and growing every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's more expensive to produce eggs this way, Sauder says. You need more buildings for the same number of chickens, because you can't stack the birds on several levels in the same house. There's also more work involved — somebody has to walk through the chicken house collecting stray eggs that chickens laid on the ground, rather than in their enclosed nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the industry, he says, is responding to \"the perception that cage-free is a better product than eggs from a conventional cage house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you believe that?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauder pauses. \"From a nutrition standpoint, the egg is the same,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as Sauder stands amid the crowd of chickens, he does seem pleased. You're closer to the animals, he says, the way farmers were 50 years ago. You also get to see chickens acting more like chickens, dust-bathing or perching on long metal rods up near the ceiling. \"You come in here at nighttime, those things are all full up there, because birds migrate to the top perches. That's where they feel safest,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's still some argument, though, about whether that means the chickens are really better off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Michigan, scientists are carrying out a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/research\">large-scale experiment\u003c/a> with three different full-scale chicken houses. One has chickens in traditional cages; one has so-called enriched cages that are bigger, and include nests and perches; and a third house is cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have over 300 cameras mounted within those systems to collect data,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ans.msu.edu/people/dr_janice_swanson\">Janice Swanson\u003c/a>, from Michigan State University. She's one of the scientists in charge of the study, which is funded by a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/\">consortium\u003c/a> of egg producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says they are measuring every aspect of each system: how clean the air is; how healthy the chickens are; how much it costs; how each system affects a chicken's welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the third floor of Michigan State's animal sciences building, teams of students are carefully watching videotapes, counting how often the chickens do things like spread their wings or peck each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says it's important to measure all of these things because there may be trade-offs between different goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in cage-free systems, chicken litter builds up on the floor, so chickens scratch around and dust-bathe in their own waste. \"There are concerns about that, relative to egg safety,\" he says. \"Now, for the hen's behavioral repertoire, this is cool! We can get down and dust-bathe, and so on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiment has been running for a year now, and the scientists have released some \u003ca href=\"http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/28b12022#/28b12022/12\">preliminary observations\u003c/a>. Here are just a few: Hens in cages were cleaner, but cage-free chickens kept more of their feathers. Cage-free hens may have had more freedom, but twice as many of them died during the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says it's too early to draw any firm conclusions, though, because these observations are from just one production cycle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Promises from big food companies to switch to \"cage-free\" eggs have set off a supply chain reaction among egg producers. Some producers are adding more cage-free houses to their operations. But scientists are still trying to measure whether cage-free chickens are really better off.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1372372735,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1027},"headData":{"title":"What The Rise Of Cage-Free Eggs Means For Chickens | KQED","description":"Promises from big food companies to switch to "cage-free" eggs have set off a supply chain reaction among egg producers. Some producers are adding more cage-free houses to their operations. 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Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64265\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cage-free chickens in Harold Sensenig's barn near Hershey, Pa., get to roam and perch on steel rods, but they don't go outside. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/27/195639341/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/06/20130627_atc_07.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/27/195639341/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage. Animal welfare groups have long been \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/battery_cages.html\">campaigning\u003c/a> against these cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are succeeding, and this is where the change starts. In recent years, several big food companies have promised to switch to \"cage-free\" eggs. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/sustainablesourcing/eggs-dairy/\">Unilever\u003c/a>, which sells Hellmann's mayonnaise, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.aramark.com/PressRoom/PressReleases/cage-free-egg-commitment.aspx\">Aramark\u003c/a>, which supplies food to big companies, colleges and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those promises set off a supply chain reaction. \"There weren't enough cage-free eggs for us to do Hellmann's Light mayonnaise, initially,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/pub/douglas-balentine/0/635/6b1\">Doug Balentine\u003c/a>, director of nutrition and health for Unilever North America. \"It's going to take us about five years of working with egg suppliers so that we can convert all the egg farmers, just to supply the eggs for Hellmann's mayonnaise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a brand-new pair of chicken houses tucked into the rolling farmland near Hershey, Pa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of those houses, 18,000 chickens are milling around on the floor. Some are perched on metal bars. A few are madly pecking away at the plastic covers on my shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chickens just arrived here a few weeks ago. So did the farmer, a taciturn young man named Harold Sensenig, who grew up just down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Been living here for about four weeks now. Moved in a week before the chickens came. Got married two weeks before that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These chickens aren't free-range or organic; they don't go outside. But they do get to roam around inside the house, which makes them cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensenig built this style of chicken house — and a bank financed it — on the strength of those promises by Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64266\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sensenig has a deal with a local egg buyer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saudereggs.com/\">Sauder's Eggs\u003c/a>, which is paying twice the going rate for cage-free eggs. Sauder Eggs, in turn, supplies those eggs to Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the demand that's driving it,\" says Paul Sauder, who owns Sauder's Eggs. \"I mean, I wouldn't take the risk of paying double for these eggs, versus commodity eggs, if I didn't have the demand pushing on the other side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, it's estimated that about 8 percent of all eggs come from cage-free houses. For Sauder's business, it's 10 or 12 percent, and growing every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's more expensive to produce eggs this way, Sauder says. You need more buildings for the same number of chickens, because you can't stack the birds on several levels in the same house. There's also more work involved — somebody has to walk through the chicken house collecting stray eggs that chickens laid on the ground, rather than in their enclosed nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the industry, he says, is responding to \"the perception that cage-free is a better product than eggs from a conventional cage house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you believe that?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauder pauses. \"From a nutrition standpoint, the egg is the same,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as Sauder stands amid the crowd of chickens, he does seem pleased. You're closer to the animals, he says, the way farmers were 50 years ago. You also get to see chickens acting more like chickens, dust-bathing or perching on long metal rods up near the ceiling. \"You come in here at nighttime, those things are all full up there, because birds migrate to the top perches. That's where they feel safest,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's still some argument, though, about whether that means the chickens are really better off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Michigan, scientists are carrying out a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/research\">large-scale experiment\u003c/a> with three different full-scale chicken houses. One has chickens in traditional cages; one has so-called enriched cages that are bigger, and include nests and perches; and a third house is cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have over 300 cameras mounted within those systems to collect data,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ans.msu.edu/people/dr_janice_swanson\">Janice Swanson\u003c/a>, from Michigan State University. She's one of the scientists in charge of the study, which is funded by a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/\">consortium\u003c/a> of egg producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says they are measuring every aspect of each system: how clean the air is; how healthy the chickens are; how much it costs; how each system affects a chicken's welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the third floor of Michigan State's animal sciences building, teams of students are carefully watching videotapes, counting how often the chickens do things like spread their wings or peck each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says it's important to measure all of these things because there may be trade-offs between different goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in cage-free systems, chicken litter builds up on the floor, so chickens scratch around and dust-bathe in their own waste. \"There are concerns about that, relative to egg safety,\" he says. \"Now, for the hen's behavioral repertoire, this is cool! We can get down and dust-bathe, and so on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiment has been running for a year now, and the scientists have released some \u003ca href=\"http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/28b12022#/28b12022/12\">preliminary observations\u003c/a>. Here are just a few: Hens in cages were cleaner, but cage-free chickens kept more of their feathers. Cage-free hens may have had more freedom, but twice as many of them died during the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says it's too early to draw any firm conclusions, though, because these observations are from just one production cycle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/64253/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens","authors":["byline_bayareabites_64253"],"categories":["bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_99","bayareabites_11915","bayareabites_11914","bayareabites_8249","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_10774","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_64265","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_58730":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_58730","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"58730","score":null,"sort":[1364160094000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella","title":"Backyard Chickens: Cute, Trendy Spreaders Of Salmonella","publishDate":1364160094,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 666px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/chix.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/chix.jpg\" alt=\"Backyard chickens can be a great hobby. They can also spread disease. Photo: iStockphoto.com\" width=\"666\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58735\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backyard chickens can be a great hobby. They can also spread disease. Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Nancy Shute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/24/175057536/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/24/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backyard chickens have become a coveted suburban accessory, one that packages cuteness, convenience and local food production in one fluffy feathered package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But animal husbandry can be a nasty business, a fact that's often glossed over by poultry partisans like \u003ca href=\"http://www.marthastewart.com/264904/backyard-chickens-for-beginners\">Martha Stewart\u003c/a> and \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_orlean\">Susan Orlean\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report\u003c/em> doesn't do gloss. In its latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6211a5.htm?s_cid=mm6211a5_w\">edition\u003c/a>, this chronicle of all things contagious reports on a 2012 salmonella outbreak among 195 people in 27 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most had had contact with live chickens, and many had purchased the birds from an Ohio mail-order hatchery for backyard flocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"This outbreak investigation identified the largest number of human illnesses ever linked to contact with live poultry during a single outbreak,\" the \u003cem>MMWR\u003c/em> report concludes, \"and it underscores the ongoing risk for human salmonellosis linked to backyard flocks.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The hatchery that was the source of the birds participated in a program to eliminate the spread of salmonella strains that cause illness in birds, but doesn't certify the poultry as free of strains that could infect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's no surprise to anybody in the zoonotic disease world that chickens can spread human disease. Remember those warnings not to buy baby chicks for Easter presents? One big reason is that they can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/diseases/salmonellosis.htm\">spread salmonella\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans can get salmonella from chickens by touching them or their manure, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/features/salmonellapoultry/\">according to the CDC\u003c/a>. The birds can spread the bacteria even when they look healthy. The agency says the best way to reduce risk is to wash hands after handling birds — and make sure that children wash their hands, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials are also worried about backyard flocks and bird flu. The USDA provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/birdbiosecurity/\">tips\u003c/a> on how to keep domestic fowl from playing a role in a future global pandemic, with no less than backyard poultry expert \u003ca href=\"http://www.chickenwhisperer.net/\">Andy Schneider\u003c/a>, aka The Chicken Whisperer, as their spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buying eggs from the supermarket is a relatively recent invention, as Orlean has pointed out. So maybe the return of backyard chickens is a return to normal. And that's normal, germs included. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Backyard chickens have become a hot trend, loved as a source of healthy local food and fluffy wonderfulness. 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Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Nancy Shute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/24/175057536/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/24/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backyard chickens have become a coveted suburban accessory, one that packages cuteness, convenience and local food production in one fluffy feathered package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But animal husbandry can be a nasty business, a fact that's often glossed over by poultry partisans like \u003ca href=\"http://www.marthastewart.com/264904/backyard-chickens-for-beginners\">Martha Stewart\u003c/a> and \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_orlean\">Susan Orlean\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report\u003c/em> doesn't do gloss. In its latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6211a5.htm?s_cid=mm6211a5_w\">edition\u003c/a>, this chronicle of all things contagious reports on a 2012 salmonella outbreak among 195 people in 27 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most had had contact with live chickens, and many had purchased the birds from an Ohio mail-order hatchery for backyard flocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"This outbreak investigation identified the largest number of human illnesses ever linked to contact with live poultry during a single outbreak,\" the \u003cem>MMWR\u003c/em> report concludes, \"and it underscores the ongoing risk for human salmonellosis linked to backyard flocks.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The hatchery that was the source of the birds participated in a program to eliminate the spread of salmonella strains that cause illness in birds, but doesn't certify the poultry as free of strains that could infect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's no surprise to anybody in the zoonotic disease world that chickens can spread human disease. Remember those warnings not to buy baby chicks for Easter presents? One big reason is that they can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/diseases/salmonellosis.htm\">spread salmonella\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans can get salmonella from chickens by touching them or their manure, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/features/salmonellapoultry/\">according to the CDC\u003c/a>. The birds can spread the bacteria even when they look healthy. The agency says the best way to reduce risk is to wash hands after handling birds — and make sure that children wash their hands, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials are also worried about backyard flocks and bird flu. The USDA provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/birdbiosecurity/\">tips\u003c/a> on how to keep domestic fowl from playing a role in a future global pandemic, with no less than backyard poultry expert \u003ca href=\"http://www.chickenwhisperer.net/\">Andy Schneider\u003c/a>, aka The Chicken Whisperer, as their spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buying eggs from the supermarket is a relatively recent invention, as Orlean has pointed out. So maybe the return of backyard chickens is a return to normal. And that's normal, germs included. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/58730/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella","authors":["byline_bayareabites_58730"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_4082","bayareabites_10566","bayareabites_8249","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_9162"],"featImg":"bayareabites_58731","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_14935":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_14935","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"14935","score":null,"sort":[1278860421000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chickens-eggs-southern-corn-pudding","title":"Chickens, Eggs, & Southern Corn Pudding","publishDate":1278860421,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/eggbasket500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/eggbasket500.jpg\" alt=\"Egg Basket\" title=\"Egg Basket\" width=\"500\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15029\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's 7am here in Novato, time to walk across the creek (summer dry now, except for a puddle or two under the rocks) and feed the goats and chickens. These last few weeks have been a country-living idyll, if you can call a mere 15-minute drive from an on-ramp to 101 the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/chicken500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/chicken500.jpg\" alt=\"Free Range Chicken\" title=\"Free Range Chicken\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15031\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the neighbors have horses, the only sounds at night are peacocks moaning and dogs barking, and across the creek and the little meadow is a former donkey stable turned goat-and-henhouse, home to two young goats, Teddy and Lila, each about the size of a spaniel, and 9 plump hens--4 blonde and bosomy Buff Orpingtons, 3 glossy Rhode Island Reds, and 2 perky little bantam Brahmas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/goats500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/goats500.jpg\" alt=\"Goats\" title=\"Goats\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15033\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chickens tolerate the goats, since their presence involves the appearance of tasty sweet hay and goat chow twice a day. Teddy and Lila, meanwhile, accept life with a mess of clucking, pecking birds underfoot as perfectly normal. Right now, they spend a lot of time bending their little goat brains into figuring out how to get into the enclosure where the feed tubs are kept. It's wood-walled, locked and chicken-wired at every opening, but that hasn't stopped them from poking and butting at every opportunity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, living near these chickens has opened my wannabe urban-farmer eyes-- and ears. Chickens are noisy, even when there's no rooster around. Hens will cackle, call, chirp and just downright yell their feathered little heads off when they feel like it, 6am and your sweet dreams be damned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/chicknest500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/chicknest500.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken Nest\" title=\"Chicken Nest\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15035\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The look in a hen's eye when one approaches her in her nest could drill holes in a diamond. I know egg baskets lined with cheerful gingham dish towels do not exist in nature, but any hen worth her salt will know exactly what you're up to when you come sidling up to her, little basket slung casually over one wrist. One more step and I'll shoot, she seems to say, and so far I haven't be brave enough to put her glare to the test. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's already 2 dozen eggs in the fridge as it is, half left by the owners and half this week's haul. Some are white and dainty, others big and brown, but all are delicious as only new-laid eggs from happy hens can be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yolks stand up and shout, bright yellow ringed by a thick, nearly aspic-like white. Hard-boiled, they're nearly impossible to peel--too fresh. But scrambled, poached, fried sunny-side up, they make getting crowed out of bed at first light seem worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, with the eggs of 9 happy layers at my disposal, challah, quiches, and custards of all sorts are looking pretty good. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For something made with not much more than milk, cream, eggs, and corn, corn pudding has many variations, most of which hark back to the South. There are simple, silky puddings, trembling and delicate as a Japanese \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chawanmushi\">chawanmushi\u003c/a>, baked in a water bath to cook the custard gently and evenly. There are brawny ones, made with cornmeal (or, more likely, Jiffy cornbread mix) like spoonbread, kissing cousin to a corn muffin. Some are spicy with jalapeno and pepper cheese, others sweet with sugar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, my mother made it the way her mother did: custardy and simple, baked in a white souffle dish and dusted with paprika for color. Sometimes she separated the eggs, first sauteeing some onion and red pepper in the butter, stirring in the flour then adding the milk and cream, bubbling it into a creamy white sauce. The egg yolks were whisked and tempered with a little sauce, then stirred into the sauce and cooked until thickened. The egg whites were beaten to drooping peaks, then quickly folded in and popped into a hot oven. Puffed and golden, this was no mere corn pudding but a puffed and golden corn souffle. Either way, served with broiled lemon chicken and a salad of ripe tomatoes dabbed with mayonnaise and fresh basil, these were eggs that tasted of summer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/cornpudding500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/cornpudding500.jpg\" alt=\"Corn Pudding\" title=\"Corn Pudding\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15037\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Corn Pudding\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGetting the pan of hot water into the oven without splashing (and burning) yourself is the one hurdle to using a bain-marie. The easiest trick? Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Preheat your oven. Put your pudding dish inside a larger baking pan (there should be at least an inch of room all around the dish) and place it on the oven rack. Using the kettle, pour hot water into the baking pan so it comes about halfway up your pudding dish. Slide rack carefully back into the oven, taking care not to slosh yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pudding is done, remove dish to a cooling rack or trivet. Leave the water-filled baking pan in the oven until cool, then remove. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serves: 4 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1 tbsp butter, melted\u003cbr>\n1 tbsp flour\u003cbr>\n1/2 tsp salt\u003cbr>\nfreshly ground pepper\u003cbr>\n4 ears corn, or enough to make approximately 2 cups corn kernels\u003cbr>\n1 cup whole milk\u003cbr>\n1/2 cup half-and-half\u003cbr>\n4 eggs, preferably from happy hens\u003cbr>\na few pinches of sugar (optional)\u003cbr>\na few pinches of cayenne pepper or a few dashes of hot sauce, optional\u003cbr>\nPaprika\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Preheat oven to 350 F. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Grate each ear of corn across the large holes of a box grater until all the kernels and milk are off the cob. Or, cut kernels off cob with a sharp knife and pulse a few times in a food processor to make a lumpy puree. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. 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Teddy and Lila, meanwhile, accept life with a mess of clucking, pecking birds underfoot as perfectly normal. Right now, they spend a lot of time bending their little goat brains into figuring out how to get into the enclosure where the feed tubs are kept. It's wood-walled, locked and chicken-wired at every opening, but that hasn't stopped them from poking and butting at every opportunity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, living near these chickens has opened my wannabe urban-farmer eyes-- and ears. Chickens are noisy, even when there's no rooster around. Hens will cackle, call, chirp and just downright yell their feathered little heads off when they feel like it, 6am and your sweet dreams be damned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/chicknest500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/chicknest500.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken Nest\" title=\"Chicken Nest\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15035\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The look in a hen's eye when one approaches her in her nest could drill holes in a diamond. I know egg baskets lined with cheerful gingham dish towels do not exist in nature, but any hen worth her salt will know exactly what you're up to when you come sidling up to her, little basket slung casually over one wrist. One more step and I'll shoot, she seems to say, and so far I haven't be brave enough to put her glare to the test. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's already 2 dozen eggs in the fridge as it is, half left by the owners and half this week's haul. Some are white and dainty, others big and brown, but all are delicious as only new-laid eggs from happy hens can be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yolks stand up and shout, bright yellow ringed by a thick, nearly aspic-like white. Hard-boiled, they're nearly impossible to peel--too fresh. But scrambled, poached, fried sunny-side up, they make getting crowed out of bed at first light seem worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, with the eggs of 9 happy layers at my disposal, challah, quiches, and custards of all sorts are looking pretty good. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For something made with not much more than milk, cream, eggs, and corn, corn pudding has many variations, most of which hark back to the South. There are simple, silky puddings, trembling and delicate as a Japanese \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chawanmushi\">chawanmushi\u003c/a>, baked in a water bath to cook the custard gently and evenly. There are brawny ones, made with cornmeal (or, more likely, Jiffy cornbread mix) like spoonbread, kissing cousin to a corn muffin. Some are spicy with jalapeno and pepper cheese, others sweet with sugar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, my mother made it the way her mother did: custardy and simple, baked in a white souffle dish and dusted with paprika for color. Sometimes she separated the eggs, first sauteeing some onion and red pepper in the butter, stirring in the flour then adding the milk and cream, bubbling it into a creamy white sauce. The egg yolks were whisked and tempered with a little sauce, then stirred into the sauce and cooked until thickened. The egg whites were beaten to drooping peaks, then quickly folded in and popped into a hot oven. Puffed and golden, this was no mere corn pudding but a puffed and golden corn souffle. Either way, served with broiled lemon chicken and a salad of ripe tomatoes dabbed with mayonnaise and fresh basil, these were eggs that tasted of summer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/cornpudding500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/07/cornpudding500.jpg\" alt=\"Corn Pudding\" title=\"Corn Pudding\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15037\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Corn Pudding\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGetting the pan of hot water into the oven without splashing (and burning) yourself is the one hurdle to using a bain-marie. The easiest trick? Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Preheat your oven. 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Leave the water-filled baking pan in the oven until cool, then remove. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serves: 4 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1 tbsp butter, melted\u003cbr>\n1 tbsp flour\u003cbr>\n1/2 tsp salt\u003cbr>\nfreshly ground pepper\u003cbr>\n4 ears corn, or enough to make approximately 2 cups corn kernels\u003cbr>\n1 cup whole milk\u003cbr>\n1/2 cup half-and-half\u003cbr>\n4 eggs, preferably from happy hens\u003cbr>\na few pinches of sugar (optional)\u003cbr>\na few pinches of cayenne pepper or a few dashes of hot sauce, optional\u003cbr>\nPaprika\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Preheat oven to 350 F. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Grate each ear of corn across the large holes of a box grater until all the kernels and milk are off the cob. Or, cut kernels off cob with a sharp knife and pulse a few times in a food processor to make a lumpy puree. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. 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