Eggland’s Best misrepresents how it treats the hens that lay the company’s Cage Free Eggs, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
“Eggland’s makes specific representations on the packaging of its Cage Free Eggs and on its website about how the hens laying Cage Free Eggs are treated,” plaintiff Peter Meyer Reimer’s class action lawsuit claims. These representations include statements like, “[e]very hen selected by Eggland’s Best Cage Free Eggs is free to roam in a pleasant, natural environment,” is “in an open, comfortable barn environment keeping them happy and healthy,” and is treated “humanely.”
“None of this is true,” the Egglands Best class action lawsuit says.
Reimer claims several sources of evidence show Eggland’s Best is “utterly failing” to meet the needs of hens or to provide “pleasant, natural environments.”
“Visual evidence from Defendants’ suppliers shows conditions completely inconsistent with the known needs hens have, the environments natural to them, and the conditions conducive to their happiness,” the Eggland’s Best class action says.
Reimer wants to represent a nearly...
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