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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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Canandaigua, NY demonstration covered by Messenger Post |
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The Messenger Post newspaper has published an article about yesterday's demonstration. The article quotes both Katie Barber, the Canandaigua Academy student who organized the demonstration, and Compassionate Consumers' Adam Durand.
Katie Barber shivered in the stiff wind, but her sign, which read “Wegmans, Please Go Cage-Free,” didn’t tremble. The CA junior and about five of her fellow students protested conditions at Wegmans’ Wolcott egg farm.
“Their egg farm is very cruel,” the 17-year-old said. “Their chickens aren’t being cared for properly.”
We got some very positive responses from Wegmans customers in Canandaigua, and after the demonstration we stopped by Harvest Natural Market. We look forward to joining the students again soon, but we left some signs with them so they don't have to wait for us before they have another demo!
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