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March 8, 2022
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Austin, Texas – PETA Basis legal professionals and co-counsel simply gained a precedent-setting victory in courtroom when a movement to dismiss the class-action lawsuit in opposition to Texas-based Very important Farms Inc.—whose eggs are offered at Entire Meals, Goal, Kroger, and different main grocers nationwide—was denied. The decide’s choice signifies that the case, introduced by customers who have been misled into shopping for eggs at a premium value due to the corporate’s false claims that it treats hens ethically and humanely, can go ahead.
A Texas federal courtroom decide discovered that plaintiffs raised legitimate authorized claims when alleging that Very important Farms makes misleading assertions about hens’ humane remedy, regardless of the next:
- It engages in industry-standard practices, together with acquiring hens from hatcheries that kill all male chicks at delivery and burning or slicing off hens’ extremely delicate beaks to forestall preventing amongst harassed, severely crowded, confined hens.
- Lots of the birds spend most or all of their time indoors—not in “pastures,” as Very important Farms claims.
- The corporate sends birds to slaughterhouses once they turn out to be much less worthwhile.
“This ruling places a goal on the again of all egg sellers which might be partaking in ‘humane washing’—that’s, exploiting light hens and mendacity to customers about it,” says PETA Basis Director of Litigation Asher Smith. “PETA is working to make sure that this case places a cease to Very important Farms’ dishonest advertising and marketing and reveals different firms that such ways shall be uncovered and punished.”
The 9 plaintiffs—together with people from New York Metropolis; Los Angeles and Marina del Rey, California; Warren, Michigan; Crosby, Texas; and Cooper Metropolis, Florida—are additionally represented by Richard L. Stone of Blackner Stone & Associates and Jesse Weiss of Edmundson Shelton Weiss PLLC.
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