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'So, is the answer more vaccines? NO! The answer is to get rid of factory farming methods and return to natural organic methods.'
By Barbara H. Peterson
'According to WMUR 9, “Low-cost vaccines that may help prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs haven’t been given to nearly half the nation’s egg-laying hens.”
All I can say, is thank goodness we still have un-vaccinated hens!
Reading a little further down in the article, it seems that both farms involved in the recall, Hillandale and Wright, used vaccinations, or purchased vaccinated hens:
Both farms involved in the recall vaccinated some of their chickens.
Julie DeYoung, a spokeswoman for Hillandale Farms, said the company began purchasing vaccinated laying hens in September 2009. The company didn’t vaccinate older hens but replaced them with vaccinated ones as they went out of production, she said.
“So about 80 percent of the hens have been vaccinated,” DeYoung said.
Wright County Eggs has vaccinated some hens since 2009, investing more than $570,000 in the effort..'
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