Wright County Egg Producer Testifies

Austin J. DeCoster testified before a House committee today. His explanation for how his egg company ended up at the heart of more than three decades of salmonella outbreaks: (we) “got big quite a while before we stopped acting like we were small.” That might be true, but the fact that he was allowed to keep operating and selling eggs to the public after repeated citations over the years from government inspectors is really the fault of the government agencies responsible for doing the inspections. If they had been doing their job then this now infamous Wright County egg producer would have been shut down ages ago.

Read all about what Mr. DeCoster had to say during the hearing here.