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Baiada Poultry is a privately owned Australian company which produces poultry products throughout Australia. Their operations include broiler and breeder farms, hatcheries, processing plants, feedmilling and protein recovery. Their head office is at Pendle Hill, New South Wales. Other major operating centres are located in Brisbane, South Australia, Tamworth and Victoria. According to the company, they employ approximately 2200 people.〔(Who we are ) Baiada. Retrieved 14 April 2012.〕 Baiada is one of Australia's largest poultry processing companies with a market share of more than 20%, producing the Lilydale Select and Steggles brand to retailers including Coles, Woolworths, IGA, Aldi, McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Red Rooster, Nando's and Subway.〔〔 The company has been embroiled in scandals involving deceptively selling chicken products as "free range" and the exploitation of migrant workers.〔〔 == Misleading "free to roam" labelling scandal == In September 2011 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) commenced federal court action against Baiada Poultry, Bartter Enterprises, and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation, alleging that they engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and made misleading representations that meat chickens were "free to roam around in large barns". The ACCC argued the chickens were reared indoors with high-density stocking (20 chickens per square metre) that significantly restricted their ability to roam. Such a definition of free to roam would leave room for 2.2 chickens on an A3 size page.〔 On 30 October 2013 the Federal Court of Australia ordered Baiada Poultry and Bartter Enterprises, the processers and suppliers of Steggles branded chicken products to pay a total of $400,000 in civil pecuniary penalties, declaring that the companies contravened the ''Trade Practices Act'' and the ''Australian Consumer Law'' by engaging in "false, misleading and deceptive conduct (or conduct liable to mislead and deceive)" when it described on product packaging and in advertising that its meat chickens were "free to roam in large barns".〔 The Australian Chicken Meat Federation, the peak industry lobby group for the Australian chicken meat industry, was also ordered to pay $20,000 in penalties by asserting in publications on its website that chickens in Australia were "free to roam" or able to "roam freely" in large barns.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baiada Poultry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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