Baiada (owner of Steggles) and Bartter, which supply meat chicken products, have been fined $400K in respect of their misleading ‘free to roam’ representations by Tracey J of the Federal Court sitting at Melbourne on Wednesday 30 October 2013. The companies together with the Australian Meatchicken Federation had been previously found (in a separate judgement handed…

Victorian duck producer Luv-A-Duck was today fined $360K by the Federal Court sitting at Melbourne for false claims its products were “range reared…in the spacious Victorian Wimmera wetlands” when in fact the ducks were at all times confined to their shed. The claims were taken up by the Panel and Animal Liberation NSW with the…