Three years of class litigation challenging Perdue Farms Inc.’s assertion that it humanely raises chickens sold under one of its brands has ended with terse statements that the poultry company will no longer make that claim.
Perdue and the Humane Society of the United States issued identical four-paragraph press releases in which each party expressed that it “pleased” with the dismissal, with prejudice, on Oct. 13 of two proposed class actions filed in 2011 and 2013 in U.S. District Courts in New Jersey and the Middle District of Florida. Neither side elaborated on terms of the deal, which was described simply as requiring Perdue to remove the words “humanely raised” from packages of its Harvestland chicken brand.
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