Walk, Perch, Nest - Compass Goes Cage-Free

Christmas came early this year for roughly 200,000 American hens who will soon have more room to move around and engage in natural behaviors like walking, perching and nesting. Marketplace reported today that Compass Group, a huge company that owns Wolfgang Puck Catering and supplies food products and meals to companies including Target and Nodrstroms, universities including Oberlin and MIT, and many other businesses has decided to buy eggs only from cage-free hens and to use a third party to certify that the hens are truly cage-free.

Unfortunately, cage-free will not mean an end to the birds' suffering as they will most likely not be allowed to go outside and they probably will still have their beaks cut. But it will mean that they will suffer less than they do now.

While this is not quite the answer to all our poultry's prayers for deliverance, this is a step in the right direction and should be encouraged. Please join me in sending Compass Group a message thanking them for their decision and urging them to take the next step by switching to free range, organic eggs only. Visit the link below to send your message:
http://www.cgnad.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=52.

* Click here to listen to Marketplace's short report.
* Click here to read the Humane Society's press release.

Walk, Perch, Nest - Compass Goes Cage-Free

Christmas came early this year for roughly 200,000 American hens who will soon have more room to move around and engage in natural behaviors like walking, perching and nesting. Marketplace reported today that Compass Group, a huge company that owns Wolfgang Puck Catering and supplies food products and meals to companies including Target and Nodrstroms, universities including Oberlin and MIT, and many other businesses has decided to buy eggs only from cage-free hens and to use a third party to certify that the hens are truly cage-free.

Unfortunately, cage-free will not mean an end to the birds' suffering as they will most likely not be allowed to go outside and they probably will still have their beaks cut. But it will mean that they will suffer less than they do now.

While this is not quite the answer to all our poultry's prayers for deliverance, this is a step in the right direction and should be encouraged. Please join me in sending Compass Group a message thanking them for their decision and urging them to take the next step by switching to free range, organic eggs only. Visit the link below to send your message:
http://www.cgnad.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=52.

* Click here to listen to Marketplace's short report.
* Click here to read the Humane Society's press release.