| When the animal rights group Compassion
Over Killing (COK) learned that the national grocery store chain
Trader Joe’s sold battery-caged hens’ eggs labeled “Animal
Care Certified,” they succeeded in persuading the company
to halt its participation in the egg industry’s false advertising
program. (http://www.eggscam.com/traderjoes.php)
While this is a step in the right direction, Trader Joe’s
has not yet agreed to stop selling eggs from hens in battery cages,
even though the company stopped selling duck meat in response to
activist pressure regarding the terrible suffering of ducks and
even though its promotional material boasts that the chickens whose
flesh the company sells “are . . . not enclosed in cages.”
*UPC Note: Chickens raised for meat, though not enclosed in cages,
are enclosed in filthy dark sheds. Birds raised for meat are nearly
all, as Trader Joe’s says about the birds it buys, “floor-raised.”
In other words, there is nothing to indicate a “humane”
difference in how Trader Joe’s chickens are raised and slaughtered
compared to other chickens raised and slaughtered for, say, KFC.
(http://www.upc-online.org/broiler/)
What Can I Do?
Respectfully urge Trader Joe’s to refuse to sell any eggs
from battery-caged hens. Contact:
Dan Bane, Chairman and CEO
Trader Joe’s
800 Shamrock Avenue
Monrovia, CA 91016
OR
117 Kendrick Street, Suite 700
Needham, MA 02494
Phone: 781-433-0234
Fax: 781-433-0746
(No email)
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. http://www.upc-online.org
United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
PO Box 150
Machipongo, VA 23405-0150
757-678-7875
FAX: 757-678-5070
www.upc-online.org
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