Bibliographic record
Abstract
THE GRASS WAS JUST LIKE THE REASSURING PASTURE depicted on the "Nearby Eggs" cartons sold in Costco stores: It grew brilliant green.But the barns in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, owned by Costco supplier Hillandale Farms were two stories tall and cinder block, not like the old-fashioned red one illustrated on the package.And the scene inside?An HSUS investigator found some 120,000 birds per barn confined in dim, hot, dust choked, fly-infested spaces a quarter mile long that stank of ammonia, manure and death.Cramped cages contained up to seven chickens each, many with cut and swollen feet.Some were dead, mummified and trampled flat.Others were caught in the wire mesh or trapped in the egg collector beneath, having followed their instincts to nest in darkness.The ensnared carcasses blocked eggs, which spilled onto the floor, yolks baking to the consistency of glue.Though Costco indicated in 2007 that it would go cage-free, it appears to have taken no steps toward ending the use of battery cages, even after a Hillandale farm was found to be the source of a 2010 salmonella outbreak that led to the nation's largest egg recall."The company has seemingly backtracked;' says Paul Shapiro, HSUS vice president for farm animal protection."There are several million birds laying eggs every year for Costco.Costco has the power to reduce their suffering.Costco should do the right thing:' Many consumers agree and have voiced their concern.Actors Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling joined their ranks, each writing a letter to CEO Craig Jelinek urging him to go cage-free.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.515 | 0.345 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".