Coles has pledged to phase out sow stalls for their entire range of home - brand pork, bacon and ham and
cage eggs from their home brands by 2013.
COLES will stop selling company branded pork, ham and bacon from pigs kept in crammed stalls as well as company branded
caged eggs from January, meeting a commitment by the company to phase out the factory farming practices a year early.
The company said it has already removed
caged eggs from its Select brand eggs.
Not exact matches
It also plans to remove artificial ingredients
from its food and switch to
cage free
eggs.
«This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the
egg and pork industries away
from confining animals in
cages,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director of the Humane Society of the United States, who has partnered with Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) on the initiative.
-- More than 100 big brands,
from Walmart to McDonalds, committing to phasing out battery
cages for
egg - laying hens over the next 3 to 10 years.
For example, McDonald's continues to use nearly exclusively
eggs from caged hens in the U.S., while Burger King, Starbucks, and so many others have pledged to use only
cage - free
eggs.
Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on
Egg McMuffins and switching to
cage - free
eggs and chicken
from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.
Carl's Jr. recently added an all - natural burger to its menu featuring beef
from grass - fed, free - range cattle, and Dunkin Donuts is looking into using
cage - free
eggs.
McDonald's has been on what McDonald's calls a food «journey,» with tweaks over the past few years including committing to using only
cage - free
eggs, removing artificial preservatives
from Chicken McNuggets, and making breakfast items like the
Egg McMuffin available all day.
The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the
eggs it uses each year will not come
from hens crammed into battery
cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.
And McDonald's, in a watershed moment, announced that all of the
eggs it uses will come
from cage - free farms — freeing an estimated 8 million hens a year
from tight confinement when the policy is fully implemented.
Frozen
egg products range in package size
from 2 - pound cartons to 30 - pound pails, while hard - cooked and precooked
cage foodservice products are available in a variety of pack sizes as well.
Deb El prides itself on being ahead of the curve with specialty products, such as
eggs from cage - free hens.
We understand that some
cage - free
eggs are housed next to
caged chicken, however, our
eggs are sourced
from 100 %
cage - free farms.
Images
from this investigation sparked international media, and began a chain reaction of supermarkets dumping
cage eggs.
Low on the glycemic index and made primarily
from almond flour and
cage - free
eggs, Cappello's fettuccine has a deliciously rich, buttery flavor and silky consistency.
These include
cage - safe,
cage - free, brown or vegetarian
eggs, ones enriched with Vitamins D and E, Omega 3, lutein and choline, ones with 25 percent less saturated fat and sport protein powder made
from egg whites.
The report, released this week, found free - range
eggs cost more than double the price of
cage eggs, but the number of chickens varied
from the recommended 1500 chickens per hectare to 20,000 per hectare.
All
eggs from caged hens will be removed
from the shelves of Woolworths over five years as the supermarket responds to growing consumer demand to address animal welfare, the supermarket chain will announce on Friday.
«In 2005, in response to valuable customer feedback, we made a change to have all Trader Joe's brand
eggs come only
from cage - free hens,» the company said.
Cage - free organic
eggs and vinegar
from non-GMO beets.
It's the first ever avocado oil - based mayo, made with
cage - free organic
eggs and vinegar
from non-GMO beets whipped into that full, rich classic mayo taste you love.
Many
egg producers are also moving away
from conventional battery
cages to meet the increasing demand for
cage - free.
According to its new policy, Burger King Corp. will transition to 100 percent
cage - free
eggs for all U.S. locations within five years, and only purchase pork
from suppliers that have documented plans to end their use of gestation crates for breeding pigs.
Hundreds of university food services, including UCLA, the University of Florida, Harvard and Princeton, are also buying their
eggs from cage - free suppliers.
Free range
eggs are
from chickens who are not in
cages.
And Whole Foods grocery chain hasn't sold
eggs from caged hens in more than ten years.
Sonic's new policy will result in the company phasing - in the use of
cage - free
eggs as well as pork
from facilities that do not confine breeding pigs in gestation crates.
Harris Teeter has committed to sell nearly four times the amount of
cage - free
eggs as the grocery industry's national average, phase - in pork
from suppliers that don't use gestation crates to confine breeding pigs and dramatically increase the amount of poultry it sells
from producers that use a less - inhumane slaughter system called «controlled - atmosphere killing.»
On the heels of the release of its 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, food manufacturing giant General Mills announced a new
cage - free
egg purchasing program, prompting praise
from The Humane Society of the United States.
As part of its new animal welfare policy, the SUBWAY ® chain will ensure that, to start, 4 percent of the
eggs used for its breakfast menu nationwide do not come
from hens crammed into battery
cages.
The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the
eggs it uses each year will not come
from hens crammed into battery
cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.
Researchers say the cruelest thing about battery
cages is that they prevent hens
from following their instincts when laying
eggs.
The Humane Society of the United States applauded San Leandro, Calif. - based snack food giant Otis Spunkmeyer for joining the national movement away
from eggs from caged hens.
The company plans to start its conversion by phasing more than a million
cage - free
eggs into its products, sparing nearly 4,000 birds each year
from being crammed inside tiny
cages that provide each hen less space than a sheet of paper to spend her entire life.
«By pledging to use some
cage - free
eggs, Otis Spunkmeyer has taken an important step away
from one of the worst abuses of farm animals,» said Matthew Prescott, outreach director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.
«By starting to use
eggs from hens not confined in cruel battery
cages and pork
from pigs not crammed into tiny gestation crates, Sonic has taken an important first step forward for animal welfare,» said Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.
The farmer cooperative run by Amish in rural Wisconsin since 2010 has been working together with an Internet business, Tropical Traditions (now Healthy Traditions), to market their
eggs from cage - free chickens fed a specially developed feed that contains no soy, no corn, and ingredients that are tested to be free
from GMOs and the herbicide glyphosate.
Wendy's advancement is a sharp contrast to McDonald's policy of using
eggs only
from caged hens in the United States.
In 2008, the company began switching millions of
eggs to
cage - free
eggs — those that do not come
from hens kept in notoriously cramped battery
cages.
It's been a most victorious year for
egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying
eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away
from tiny and cramped battery
cages, the
egg industry norm for more than a half - century.
In 2007, Washington - based Burgerville became the first restaurant chain to stop using
eggs from caged hens.
The team found that isoflavones are most highly concentrated in the
egg yolk and originate
from hens housed in barns, not
cages (15).
Across the country, a national movement away
from using
cage eggs has taken root: Unilever and Sara Lee are phasing - in
cage - free
eggs.
This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the
egg and pork industries away
from confining animals in
cages.»
Choose
eggs that come
from cage - free / free range hens if possible.
Crafted
from a homespun Mexican classic using premium ingredients, our Breakfast Enchiladas layer corn tortillas with scrambled
cage free
eggs or
egg whites and rich southwestern sauces.
The desserts you order
from our shop contain only pure cane sugar,
cage free
eggs and sustainably grown chocolates — ensuring that farmers and their families are taught better farming practices, helping them protect their land for future generations.
Royal Caribbean has commited itself to providing its guests with 100 %
cage - free
eggs and sourcing all of its pork
from gestation - free crates by 2022.