Petition: Tell Wendy’s to Stop Using Eggs from Slave Hens Crammed into Tiny Cages
Save animals from unnecessary cruelty
Eggs
Ohio is home to two institutions who are at odds, Mercy for Animals, and one of the largest and most influential restaurant chains in the world, Wendy’s. Mercy for Animals has started a petition telling Wendy’s to stop abusing birds used to provide eggs for the international chain.
Reportedly, 305 million hens are used for their eggs every year, and though some are raised on sustainable, responsible farms, it is estimated that over 90 percent of them are subjected to despicable conditions.
Though a growing number of their competitors and other food establishments have vowed to reject eggs from hens kept in wire cages so small that the birds cannot spread their wings, walk, or engage in other natural behaviors that free-range chickens do, thus far Wendy’s has turned a blind eye and continued to support the practice through purchasing eggs from factory farms who raise ill-treated hens.
McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, and Panera Bread have all committed to using only cage-free hens for eggs within a certain time line – but not Wendy’s.
Foodservice giants Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass Group have made similar commitments, and some states have even outlawed these types of cages for hen raising.
Because the space is so cramped, many birds become trapped and painfully mangled in the cage wire or under the feed trays. Many suffer and die a painful death due to the conditions in which they are raised, and worse – dead hens are forgotten and left to rot alongside birds still laying eggs for human consumption.
Birds also have to survive open wounds, eye infections, tumors, and uterine prolapse. Few receive proper veterinary care. Deprived of any comfort, these intelligent, sensitive animals are treated as nothing more than egg-producing machines.
It’s time Wendy’s listened to its consumers and competitors. Please sign this petition asking Wendy’s to stop cramming birds into cruel cages and to set a firm deadline for going cage-free.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
I wonder how many of these farms Chrissy has actually been to? I bet not none.
You’re just an F’ing Hater monger / waste of space ! All Wendy’s has to do is make a statement. That they won’t is all the proof needed that they are guilty of this. It’s an ADMISSION OF GUILT !
LOL, yes you have no clue where most food comes from or how to supply enough to feed the world. Your methods will raise costs and lower supplies, but then again maybe population control is your true agenda.
Moron, costs have been raising for years.
The industrial and corporate suppliers have been caught so many times cutting corners that over the years the regulatory processes have over whelmed the taxpayers in costs to reign in their corrupt practices.
The Nations are responsible for feeding their People you idiot, not you or corporate tyranny.
If your feeding the world, your a total failure, millions are starving and dying.
I’ll bet you haven’t been to any either.
Sorry live by one of the top three egg producers in the country, know the ceo personally, as well as many employees.
prove it.
Prove I’m wrong.
Your living in a dream world there turd.
If you can’t offer proof, you are wrong.
So in your mindset knowing someone qualifies you as an expert in the field.
You really are an idiot.
Never claime to be an expert, only a low iq person like yourself would assume that. However, by knowing people and learning about there business practices one can have an informed opinion, unlike you and Chrissy that have never been to any of these farms.
That is a common marketing, PR tactic, using association as an authoritative stance when trolling.
The bottom line, you don’t know anybody, your too much of an idiot and any reputable well educated business person would see right through your stupidity.
Sorry, run my own business serving farmers that sell grain to one of the major egg producers in the country. This community is small and almost everyone knows everyone else. I realize this is hard for you to comprehend since you have no clue about rural communities.
You are extremely condescending and hold no true traditional values that are possessed by the rural and farming communities, most fascists are run out of those communities and are not business owners because they are too material to successfully run a business. Your claims are merely for those who have exceeded your level of stupidity.
Your assumption of my knowledge of rural communities is one of a mentally disturbed individual living is a well built emotional and false illusion, fantasy world.
I am very familiar with rural communities and the people who live in them.
Maybe you have some revelations about me you would like to share, otherwise continue to make idiotic claims that are obviously lies and fallacies as to your self claimed expertise in every topic posted here.
Your really stupid and boring.
LOL, if you really new anything about farming or farmers then you would know the benefits of gmos and wouldn’t have to wonder why they have a 90%+ market share. Keep your posts coming, they are providing good entertainment to my staff and customers.
Did you happen to show them enough to let them know you will attack anyone who doesn’t support your delusions?
No you haven’t, because your lying, using an authoritative stance to get attention. If anyone listened to your bs, you would be the only one in the world who knew rural folks, in other words your full of crap.
So your just an attention begging failure of a moron lying to cater to your life’s failures and grasp some sort of importance on the internet to balance out your failures in reality with your internet fantasy successes. Very well documented psychological behavior, moron.
Your imagined, fantasy, customers views don’t apply to real people, only the people in your dreams.
Lol, I have had some very good conversations on here with people of different views. It is only people like you that are willing to spread lies that I have a problem with.
Your an idiot, the first thing you did here was call me an moron.
Now you expect me to believe your BS and provide the common PR tactic of turning your imaginary perfections around on me. Totally childish and stupid, get a grip on reality there moron.
Your fantasies are merely a function of your failure’s in life, go whine to your perfect fantasy world people’s, here in the real world it won’t work.
Obviously you have no real arguments as the best you can do is insult and whine. Thanks for continuing to comment and prove that.
Remember you called me a moron after my first post, your just getting treated like you treat others, so stop your crying there little man.
And your not providing any proof just serves to prove your wrong.
Not crying like you. A person might use it once to intice a weak person to show their true self. You obviously fell for the bait proving you are unable to carry out a real conversation. Obviously a proving your lower intelligence.
You baited me, your not smart enough to figure that type of prior action out, but your smart enough to after action figure it out to make you appear smarter to yourself.
If your local fantasy farmers knew you are a fascist, they would drive you out to one of those dead end dirt roads and kick your ass, then they would drive the extra miles to avoid your fictitious business.
Your just a failure trying to find a reason to live.
2+2=4, not 5 you idiot.
LOL, in gmo yields 2+2=5 because of the great yields. As for the rest? Whatever your small mind wants to believe. If you have nothing real to provide then I’m about done toying with your small mind. Grow up and come back in a few years.
I’m sorry but your a peon, my life has lead to my superiority over your little pissant of a life and constant condescending attitude and insults to everyone that can’t reach out and touch you.
You might try reading and comprehending your past posts and adjust yourself there little man, then we can talk.
Till then, your a moron.
Here, show this to the girls, if they were raised rural they will know what it means.
youtube dot com/watch?v=eVtHMDJcmxE
fastcoexist dot com/3053281/the-farm-from-a-box-delivers-modern-agriculture-to-places-that-need-it
Not sure what’s in it, but it looks to be a wonderful starting point.
The local communities need to start producing their own eggs.
And everything else.