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Welcome to WegmansCruelty.com |
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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Wegmans Egg Farm Sold! |
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 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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