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Wegmans still supports battery cage eggs Wegmans still sells eggs from its former egg facility, where hens are crowded into tiny, barren cages, allowing each hen less than half a square foot of space. These animals are forced to live in their own waste and on top of the corpses of their cage-mates. A team of investigators from Compassionate Consumers found hens at Wegmans Egg Farm with severe infections and suffering from extreme dehydration. Some hens were trapped in the mesh of their cages, and others were drowning in liquid manure.
The cruel battery cage system used to produce Wegmans brand eggs has been banned in the European Union, and many food service companies, universities, and national grocery chains such as Whole Foods and Wild Oats have pledged to no longer sell or use battery cage eggs. Please seek out alternatives to battery cage eggs, and ask Wegmans to work with The Humane Society of the United States to improve these inhumane conditions.
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
 Word comes this Friday in a Buffalo News story that Wegmans has sold its egg farm to Kreher’s Poultry Farms in Clarence, NY.
The story states that Wegmans will continue to sell battery cage eggs from the same facility. We'll never forget the awful things we saw at that egg farm, the kind of cruelty that is inherent in battery cage egg production.
It's no surprise to us that Wegmans wanted out of the business. But we think they'll find that many of their customers (and ex-customers) are still unhappy that they support battery cages. When even the Pope opposes the way you pack animals into a cage, maybe it's time to become the industry leader we know you can be.
Interestingly enough, Kurt Kreher, the parter at Kreher's that is quoted in the story, took Adam Durand out to lunch in the summer of 2004. Adam is hoping to find out in the coming weeks whether he'll be going back to jail to serve the remainder of his six month sentence for trespassing on Wegmans property. |
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
 New York activists! It's time to come out of hibernation and show your solidarity with animal advocates across the country who continue to urge Wegmans Food Markets to abandon its egregiously cruel practice of confining hens to battery cages!
At the Wegmans egg farm in Wolcott, NY, close to a quarter of a million hens are living their miserable lives in cramped battery cages, in which they are denied their natural instincts. Their feet never touch solid ground and they cannot spread their wings fully.
Please join us on Sunday, April 29 to encourage Wegmans to seek more humane alternatives for its egg farm! It's time to put the pressure back on the company!
When: Sunday, April 29
Time: 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Where: Wegmans Pittsford, 3195 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY
All signs and leaflets will be provided. |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
The ban on battery cages that Connecticut is considering won't have an immediate effect on the hens at Wegmans Egg Farm, but if it is passed, it may lead some people to think - should Wegmans be operating a facility that would be illegal in parts of the US? The Connecticut Post is in favor of the ban, and their editorial cuts right through Wegmans' favorite argument:
The libertarian argument, that customers should be allowed to choose what kind of eggs they want without government mandates, as put forward by Agriculture Commissioner F. Philip Prelli, holds no water — few would choose to inflict extra cruelty on the animals we eat for dinner, but people buy factory-farmed chicken, beef and pork all the same. They have no choice, in most cases. But a system that treats living things with unnecessary suffering and cruelty needs to be changed. A good place to start is to phase in a ban on unnaturally limiting cages for egg-laying hens. |
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007 |
The Messenger Post has the story. We'll have more to say on this soon.
The grocery chain is thinking of opting out of what has become a controversial business. |
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