Английская Википедия:Hillandale Farms

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Hillandale Farms is one of the largest suppliers of chicken eggs in the United States. Headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, it was founded in 1958 by Orland Bethel.

History

Hillandale Farms was founded in 1958 by Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania resident Orland Bethel.Шаблон:Sfn It has a corporate office in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a distribution center in Plum, Pennsylvania, and egg producing locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Connecticut.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2010, Hillandale was partially responsible for a salmonella outbreak.Шаблон:Sfn One of the egg farms federal food safety officials traced the outbreak to was a Hillandale facility in Iowa.Шаблон:Sfn Jack DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster, owners of a Hillandale facility in Turner, Maine, received a three-month sentence for their role in the 2010 salmonella outbreak that was linked to their egg producing sites in Iowa.Шаблон:Sfn The company paid a $6.8 million fine as part of the plea deal.Шаблон:Sfn The Hillandale Iowa farm recalled 170 million eggs.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2015, a subsidiary of Hillandale Farms leased three farms in Turner, Leeds, and Winthrop.Шаблон:Sfn The three farms were previously leased by a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes.Шаблон:Sfn

By 2016, Pennsylvania-based Hillandale Farms operated 10 egg production facilities in the United States.Шаблон:Sfn In June 2016, the Humane Society of the United States released an undercover video of a Hillandale facility in Turner, Maine depicting egg-laying hens in rusty small wire cages.Шаблон:Sfn

On July 1, 2017, a fire killed over 100,000 chickens at a Hillandale farm in Tyrone Township, Pennsylvania.Шаблон:Sfn In February 2020, there was a proposal by Maine representative Margaret O'Neil to require egg produces to follow cage free housing systems.Шаблон:Sfn At its peak, DeCoster Egg Farm (later called Hillandale Farms), produced 5 million egg laying hens.Шаблон:Sfn By February 2020, this was closer to 1 million. Stephen Vendemia, president of Hillandale operator Hillandale Farms Conn LLC stated that the company was agreeable but may not be able to meet the proposed bill's 2024 deadline.Шаблон:Sfn

On August 11, 2020, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Hillandale Farms, one of the largest U.S. egg producers, for allegedly price gouging more than four million cartons of eggs by increasing prices by almost five times during the pandemic.Шаблон:Sfn The lawsuit alleges that the price increases were an effort to profit off of higher consumer demand during the pandemic.Шаблон:Sfn To settle the lawsuit, Hillandale Farms agreed to donate 1.2 million eggs to New York food banks.Шаблон:Sfn The case was dismissed with prejudice.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2021, Hillandale Farms' accountant, Jonathan A. Weston, was indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling $6.8 million between October 2005 and January 2019.Шаблон:Sfn A Hillandale Farms bookkeeper and secretary was a co-conspirator.Шаблон:Sfn

In October 2021, Hillandale Farms' egg processing plant in Turner, Maine shutdown.Шаблон:Sfn

On January 28, 2023 a fire killed about 100,000 chickens at a Hillandale farm in Bozrah, Connecticut.[1]

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