ACTION ALERT * * * ACTION ALERT * * * ACTION ALERT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 1998
Contact: Karen Davis
(301) 948-2406
FIGHT "BAC" [TERIA] WITH FACTS

What the Egg Nutrition Board Isn't Telling Viewers
Please Urge THE TODAY SHOW to Cancel This Sponsor

Please Write to: Jeff Zucker, Executive Producer
The Today Show
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112-0002
ph:(212) 664-4249. Press 4 for comments
Today@nbc.com
Why?

  • According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, eggs contaminated with Salmonella have caused significant numbers of human illnesses and continue to be a major public health concern. "Salmonella infected flocks have become prevalent throughout the country."

  • Each year, the U.S. egg industry intentionally deprives millions of hens of all food for an average of 1-2 weeks, until they lose 25 to 35 percent of their body weight. This starvation practice, known as forced molting, is a primary cause of Salmonella poisoning in chickens, eggs, and people.

  • The modern hen house is loaded with rodents. Every night, mice deposit an average of 100 fecal pellets per mouse in a 24 hour period in the hens' food. These Salmonella-ridden fecal pellets are the first thing the caged hens consume in the morning.

  • The eggs being advertised on The Today Show are laid in filthy, infested hen houses filled with manure and permeated with toxic excretory ammonia fumes. A one million hen complex produces 125 tons of wet manure a day.

The Egg Nutrition Board--the egg industry--is not about public health--just public relations. The caged birds live and lay their eggs in squalor--ingesting and inhaling Salmonella poison day in, day out--which is conveyed to consumers of eggs and egg products via the hens' ravaged immune system. The idea is to condition the public to accept Salmonella-infested eggs as "normal." This is a baldfaced lie.

FIGHT "BAC"--DON'T BUY EGGS!
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