Grist - Latest exposé shows the egg industry’s problems are widespread and systematic

By Tom Philpott
November 24, 2010

"Casual observers of this year's enormous salmonella-tainted egg recall can be forgiven for assuming that the whole affair stemmed from the actions of a single villain: Jack DeCoster, the now-notorious owner of a nationwide web of animal factories and "habitual violator" of laws. Granted, DeCoster's misdeeds -- which date to the ‘80s -- would make those of a fox loose in a packed henhouse look tame by comparison. But a growing weight of evidence suggests that DeCoster plys his trade amid a fundamentally corrupt system -- one in which the abuse of animals and the menacing of public health is the rule and not the exception..."

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-11-24-humane-society-egg-industry-problems-widespread-systematic