LITCHFIELD, MN – McDonald’s has decided to drop Sparboe as its egg supplier after concerns were raised regarding the management of Sparboe facilities, according to a statement by McDonald’s Vice President Bob Langert.
The news comes after undercover video showing animals at the Sparboe Farms being treated inhumanely was obtained by an activist for the group Mercy for Animals and was given to ABC News. ABC News conducted its own 20/20 investigation, which airs tonight, according to ABC News.
Sparboe Farms also received a letter from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Wednesday citing it for serious violations of the prevention of Salmonella Enteriditis that were found during inspections earlier this year, according to the FDA.
Sparboe Farms President Beth Sparboe Schnell stated that the mistreatment of animals in the undercover video footage was in direct violation of the company’s animal care code of conduct, and corrective action was being taken in regards to all violations.
Click here to read the whole statement from McDonald’s.
Click here to read the letter from the Sparboe Farms president.
Click here to read the warning letter issued by the FDA.
Yet Mcdonalds sells food that helps kill people. Where is there inhumane violations?!?!?
It is about time more and more is being published about these large food operations. They are a health hazard to the public. We need to get back to basics.
Mc Donald’s droped Sparboe, KFC droped Perdue, what next? What about swine and veal?
We live next door to a poultry factory farm. Over 60,000 birds are raised in 58 days for human consumption. We have gnats and flies in our house 24/7, 7 days a week, all year long. They are a health hazard.
Keep informing the public about these factory farms so that more people do not get sick or die from the products or the residuals from the farms.
Ms. Sticht were you in residence before the poultry facility was constructed next door? If you were I am sure a large facility would have had imput from neighbors before being allowed there. Did you voice your concerns before construction?
If you came after the poultry facility was already there…then you have nothing to complain about. You should have known that it was there.
There are a HUGE number of people in this world that need to be fed. How are we going to do that with Mom and Pop farms of the past? Obviously you do not want to raise your own food. Where are these facilities to be located that produce enough to supply what the public demands? Everyone complains “not in my backyard!” There is too much demand from those unable or unwilling to raise their own food. These facilities produce product for those people. It may be the people living in the large cities, of those in the desert that don’t have the proper environment to raise food.
I personally believe that those responsible for the mistreatment were planted in the Sparboe facility by those that wanted to shut down the industry.
Fortunately we have the facilites to be able to raise our own food. My husband raises his own poultry and has had reason in the past to be in a Sparboe facility. (He is certified to test poultry for contagious diseases.) He found it to be a reasonable, humane location for a bird to produce eggs. If chickens are not healthy they will not produce eggs. It would not make good business sense to mistreat the very animals that they rely on for there livelyhood. You cannot afford to feed those that do not produce. Conditions have to be just right for the birds to produce eggs. They must have been providing that environment.
The world population is growing at a alarming rate which we all know. We as US consumers expect economical, fast,high quality food. Something has to give. We sadly need the “Sparboe” type farms to feed this country or we will starve. Maybe some extra oversight of this industry is needed. But to have this mercy for animals organization come in and affect their company so greatly is really sad to me. Most people never thought about this at all when they went into buy these products at the store. But now they do because of this small snipet of video. I find it ironic that people will complain about this and hail Walmart’s reaction to it. But Walmart has a few issues of its own. How about how they treat their employees and the pay they receive?. To me that is a bigger problem. Don’t be surprised if they start grinding up horse meat in their hamburger…….. But that is a seperate story all together.. Society won’t react to it until they get caught with their pants down…. so to speak. Look the other way………….
hate to tell ya this but chevel (the name for horse meat)
is EXPENSIVE, it is a delicicy (sp) overseas. it will never be a cheap meat.
yes i own horses, i have all my life. love them dearly.
yes i have eaten it. it was good.
yes i support slaughter for horses. the last 5 years we have seen horses dumped like stray dogs and cats. left to starve, in alarming numbers.
unless you know the horse industry well and have lived in it the last 10 years you have no clue wheat its been like.
the droughts down south have raised the price of hay through the roof for them along with feed has gone up.
when you have to pay $20 for a 60 pound bale of hay, are you going to pay that long for a horse thats a counterfit? im sure not. ill gladly pay it for my horses that have earned their keep.
costs just as much to feed a good one as it does a bad one.
slaughter house, or a 22 cent bullet sure beats paying the vet $300 to put it down and then paying the rendering truck.
i have shipped 2 in my lifetime. both renegades, they would have killed someone. i loaded them up and dropped them off at the kill buyers house. I did not ask for payment of either horse.
he was doing me a favor by disposeing of them in a humane way.
read something beyond the peta sites, talk to reputable people in the horse industry. educate yourself before you pass a judgement.
slaughter of any animal is not always terrible. it can be done humanely. there are worse things than death
I know
PETA is over the top.
If horse meat is a delicacy…why do you not get paid instead of having to pay the rendering truck people to haul it off? I don’t understand this. I would think that the rendering plants should be paying for their raw material like every other place. It would save PETA a lot of trouble if people could afford to get rid of the animals that they can no longer afford to feed. But you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t when you have horses. You cannot pay people to take live horses these days so once you get it you have it FOREVER! If things change in your job situation you are scre..d. You have to choose between feeding your family and paying the mortgage or buying hay. Which would the smart person choose? However then PETA is there with their almighty attitude that you are going to jail if you do not take care of the animal, when all you were trying to do is take care of humans. You can try to get rid of the horse…but no one will take it…
Lesson…DON’T ever get a horse! Unless you are independently wealthy and will never have to work.