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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016

100% Cage-Free Eggs Promised by World’s Largest Food Distributor

Author:     Marlee Kokotovic
Source:     Nation of Change
Publication Date:     June 26, 2016
 Link: 100% Cage-Free Eggs Promised by World’s Largest Food Distributor
Stephan:   Here is some good news, hardly wonderful news, but definitely a move int the right direction. And what particularly interested me about this story, beyond making the lives of chickens a little better, is that this is an example of citizen power. Sysco is not doing this because of their sudden integrity and concern for animal care. They are doing it because individual people made quotidian choices when they went to market and chose eggs produced by chickens that were better treated. Those individual quotidian choices in aggregate forced Sysco to change its policies.

cage-free-eggsSysco Corp will be the first major company to switch completely to cage-free eggs in its entire supply chain in the U.S. by 2026. The company supplies food to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hotels and inns and hospitality businesses nationwide so this is a huge victory for animal rights activists.

“What this means is that distributors are going cage-fee,” David Coman-Hidy, executive director of The Humane League, told EcoWatch. “It’s going to impact the entire country.” The label, “cage-free,” might have its issues, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. The majority of eggs we see through the U.S. come from hens confined in battery cages.

 

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1 Comment

  1. John Wilson on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 4:45 am

    As an organic farmer and one who raises chickens in a true pasture based system, I know this to be chicken manure. Cage free, as a term ,is meaningless . What is truly needed is way more involved and better.