Canada: Free-Range Egg Ban Shuts Bed and Breakfast that Operated for Decades
March 19th, 2011Via: CBC News:
A P.E.I. bed and breakfast that has been operating for decades has decided to close down next year rather than stop serving eggs from its own hens because of a government order.
The Doctor’s Inn in Tyne Valley, northwest of Summerside, also operates an organic farm. Paul and Jean Offer sell their organic vegetables and free-range eggs at the Charlottetown Farmers Market, and offer the produce to customers at the Doctor’s Inn at breakfast and dinner time.
But after years of serving their own eggs, the provincial Department of Health has told them they have to stop. The department said it’s a long-standing policy that food service operations can only use federally inspected eggs.
The idea of having to buy eggs from the supermarket, rather than use their own from the 75 hens in the coop out back, was too much for the Offers. They will operate this season, and then close the business down.
So instead of eating good local food that is from someone you trust, they have to eat mass produced eggs from some chicken torture factory a zillion miles away. Thankfully the governments of the world are not too busy to protect us from evil hen laid eggs from a COOP!
I am 48 years old and my first ever chicks are arriving friday. In 6 months or so I will have some good eggs.I cannot force myself to buy the white uniform blah eggs from the store. Not since I tried some local farm eggs.
I blame – and thank – Kevin!
i’d say ‘wtf’ but it’s really not shocking at all. one can only hope that local public outcry will help the business continue underground…
too bad the statement they are making (a rather loud one, imo) will be totally lost on the government that is closing them down.
atrocious.