In response to Tuesday's article "Cage-free egg battle rages," Director of Residential Dining Lisa Wandel claims that the science does not show that battery-cage eggs are riskier than cage-free.
The truth is that Wandel is being disingenuous and dishonest with students.
I am one of the students who have met with her about this issue. Three months ago we sent her an exhaustive report of the scientific, peer-reviewed research conducted on this issue. We asked her to please review it, and to send us any contradictory studies she was aware of.
She has never presented us with any scientific data backing up her denials, nor does it seem she has even read the research we sent her.
There is a reason that the Center for Food Safety and the Consumer Federation of America are supporting a ban on battery-cage egg farms.
There is a reason that heads of the Schools of Public Health at Harvard, New York University, Johns Hopkins and elsewhere support an end to battery cage egg farms.
Can students really trust, and do we really want, a Dining Services team that will mislead us about what's safest for students?
