Free Range Eggs

Freeranger Eggs is a free range egg farm at Grantville in the southern Australian state of Victoria. Our hens are never locked up, they are fed a natural diet of grains with no additives - and they are not beak-trimmed. The only reason for removing the top part or even the tip of the beak is that when hens are confined in small spaces and in large numbers they often become aggressive and attack each other. On a true free range farm with plenty of space, all birds have full beaks.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

$300,000 fine for 'free range' deception

One of NSW's biggest egg proucers has been fined $300,000 by the Federal court to settle an action brought by the ACCC. The fine to be paid by Pirovic Enterprises is big enough to get big producers in the industry to take egg labelling seriously. Details: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.accc.gov.au%2Fmedia-release%2Ffederal-court-orders-300000-penalty-after-finding-free-range-egg-claims-to-be-misleading&h=JAQE9LbqwAQF-azXgTSo45zT3Q7CG89uErEHEuHJWoXXwow&enc=AZN-L4J76OOccvlaGHHWDLY8z1HeH5-U23jK3a0r1Ks7G7k-BzWkexYovvfAg6F8KTeAFR4LLMsStMfWzgQ46ywtZzzXngqyEFgZHEim43cFoLvEQ4wDBByuDS00MNaAGU3v4uPq38evaf1pPZYEiNni3_YQDAs-Nh5XEvJLBfv1zg&s=1
One of the interesting side issues in this decision will be to see if the company takes action against the Australian Egg Corporation - because the business complied with all AECL requirements for its Egg Corp Assured programme - and was accredited as a free range egg producer. Now the scheme has been revealed as a sham - just as all 'free range' accreditation programmes are a con. Pirovic has not been doing anything differently from other major egg producers.

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