Hampton Creek paid its workers to buy its Just Mayo
Vegan startup Hampton Creek paid its employees to go into supermarkets and purchase its own eggless Just Mayo, making the product appear more popular than it actually was, before a round of venture funding in 2014, Bloomberg reports.
Biggest egg producers promise to stop killing male chicks
Responding to pressure from animal welfare advocates, United Egg Purchasers (UEP) has agreed to stop killing male chicks at hatcheries by 2020, says Vox. New technology will enable the companies to tell the sex of the chick while still in the shell, so that the males can be painlessly disposed of before the eggs hatch. The UEP group represents 95 percent of all eggs raised in the U.S.