Is the FDA Trying to Destroy the Pastured Egg Industry

The guidance, released last month for farms that have more
than 3,000 egg-laying chickens, purportedly aims to prevent
 salmonella and other foodborne illnesses by isolating chickens
from cats, rats, flies, and wild birds—even though no evidence
exists showing them to be of significant risk at spreading
salmonella.

A 2010 article in the Atlantic Monthly stated that
all but one outbreak of foodborne illness in the US since 1995
originated at industrial factory farms.

FDA also advocates walls around the pasture, to prevent mice,
rats, and cats from entering, and then put a roof over it. That’s
right—walls and roofing. In other words, they want the chickens
to be kept in a building!

This is pure BS Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
don't want the competition and so once again the government is
obliging big business even though Pastured eggs are more nutritious.
In addition, the Pew Commission has concluded that industrial-scale
animal production poses “unacceptable” risks to public health and
the environment, while subjecting billions of animals to “severe
distress.” Their report states: