The university is buying eggs for their humane quality.
By Stacy Moniot
March 10, 2011
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University’s dining halls now have a more humane menu item.
The university is now using only cage-free, Certified Humane®, shelled eggs in its dining halls.
The dining halls crack more than 90 dozen eggs a week, and while the humane eggs cost twice as much as the non-certified ones, the university says it’s worth it, to provide more sustainable food for students.
“There are rigorous standards as far as the conditions that the chickens are raised in, they’re allowed to do natural behaviors,” said Kathy Curtin, the assistant director of Dining Services. “It sounded like a really positive thing and we didn’t want to go into it just to get the label, we really wanted to do the right thing.”
Curtin hopes the humane-certified liquid eggs become more cost-effective so the university can use them as well.
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Posted: March 10, 2011 by Certified Humane
The university is buying eggs for their humane quality.
By Stacy Moniot
March 10, 2011
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University’s dining halls now have a more humane menu item.
The university is now using only cage-free, Certified Humane®, shelled eggs in its dining halls.
The dining halls crack more than 90 dozen eggs a week, and while the humane eggs cost twice as much as the non-certified ones, the university says it’s worth it, to provide more sustainable food for students.
“There are rigorous standards as far as the conditions that the chickens are raised in, they’re allowed to do natural behaviors,” said Kathy Curtin, the assistant director of Dining Services. “It sounded like a really positive thing and we didn’t want to go into it just to get the label, we really wanted to do the right thing.”
Curtin hopes the humane-certified liquid eggs become more cost-effective so the university can use them as well.
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