No Battery Eggs (continued)
June 27th, 2008 by admin
Publix has opened its second GreenWise Market store, in Boca Raton. (The first GreenWise opened last year in Palm Beach Gardens and a third store is scheduled to open in Tampa in December.) The GreenWise stores offer a wide selection of organic foods and earth-friendly products, but also stock some conventional items “for customer convenience.” You won’t find regular lightbulbs, cigarettes or high-sugar foods at Publix GreenWise Market. Unfortunately, eggs from chickens housed in cruel battery cages are among the conventional items for sale at the new stores.
Please join us in urging Publix to make a small step to demonstrate its commitment to animal welfare by only selling eggs produced from chickens in a cage-free environment in its GreenWise Market stores. Remind them that Whole Foods Market, its main competitor for customers interested in natural foods, does not sell or use eggs produced by hens in battery cages.
In egg factory farms, hens are housed in rows of bare wire cages called “battery cages.” Four to six hens are crowded into each cage. They are unable to stretch their wings, lie down comfortably or engage in nesting, dust bathing or other natural behaviors.
ARFF believes that adopting a vegan diet, one free of eggs and other animal products, is the most important thing you can do to stop the suffering of animals in farms. Cage-free eggs are not cruelty-free, but removing chickens from battery cages helps to improve their lives. Unlike hens housed in battery cages, cage-free hens are at least able to walk, stand up straight and flap their wings.