Please take a moment to send these companies a message asking them to stop
selling cage eggs and other factory farmed products.
In the UK major supermarket chains refuse to
sell cage eggs - an ethical stand that Australian supermarkets should be encouraged to replicate.
Not exact matches
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.
In 2009,
caged eggs made up 70 per cent of all
eggs sold in Woolworths; they now comprise 50 per cent.
Whole Foods Market, which is one of Trader Joe's main competitors, already exclusively
sells cage - free
eggs in its stores.
And Whole Foods grocery chain hasn't
sold eggs from
caged hens in more than ten years.
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.»
And Walmart pledged to switch to
selling only
cage - free
eggs.
Additionally, California recently enacted a law requiring that all whole
eggs sold statewide be
cage - free by 2015.
Battery
cage eggs will no longer be allowed to be
sold in French supermarkets after 2022.
[3] The proportion of
caged eggs sold in supermarkets has fallen from 75 % to 49 % over the past decade and the RSPCA says that 84 % of consumers do not want
cage eggs.
Caged eggs sell for around 30 cents each, while free range
eggs can
sell for 50 - 80 cents.
Last year, Coles made the decision to stop
selling Coles - brand
cage eggs.
However, in December 2011, because no European agreement had been reached on enforcing the ban on battery
cages, the British government announced that it had instead been working closely with the domestic
egg industry, processors, food manufacturers, the food service sector and retailers to reach «a voluntary consensus» not to
sell or use battery - farmed
eggs and help British consumers to avoid buying them unwittingly.
Agriculture Minister Jim Paice promised that «tough action» would be taken to improve welfare standards for hens and prevent
eggs produced in «battery
cages» being
sold in the UK.
Cupcake Size: 2.5» (
sold in a case of 6) Ingredients: organic carrots, organic oat flour, natural wildflower honey, all natural peanut butter, organic
cage - free
eggs, peanut oil, baking powder, cinnamon, pure vanilla extract, baking soda, carob and / or yogurt coating.
Some are refusing to
sell eggs from enriched
cages, but other supermarkets are stocking them.
Even fast food chains and behemoth retailers like Walmart are falling in line with Canadian society's evolving demands on its food suppliers: Walmart recently announced that «every cut of beef» it
sells is 100 % Canadian AAA Angus, and Cara Foods, the owner of chain restaurants Harvey's, Swiss Chalet, Kelsey's and East Side Mario's, will switch to
cage - free
eggs for its entire supply chain by 2036.