Aldi Australia, Please Stop Selling Cruel Caged Eggs
- by: John l
- recipient: Aldi Australia Management
Battery egg production is a sad indictment on human’s treatment of animals. Bred in huge production facilities, the male baby caged chickens are of no use and are disposed of like garbage. Female chicks are grown in extremely cramped and dark conditions and fed a processed diet full of hormones, pesticides and antibiotics.
Once they reach laying age, they are put into cages less than half the size of an A4 sheet of paper. The wire floor in these cages slopes down on an angle. This prevents the hens from sitting properly and their feet often become deformed as a result.
They also have the tips of their beaks cut or burnt off to try and prevent them doing any damage to the other birds caged right beside them. In fact, some of these toxic, windowless warehouses can contain as many as 100,000 caged chickens, never seeing sunlight and fed a diet of corn waste and chemicals.
Even if you don’t have a problem with animals being treated like this (and I really hope you do – lack of empathy for the suffering of animals is one of the hallmarks of a sociopath), it isn’t hard to see why eggs coming from caged chickens kept in these conditions and fed this kind of diet are far from what they should be.
Chickens are intelligent and friendly birds, who deserve a life free of inhumane confinement. Aldi, please stop supporting the battery hen industry, because until you do, I will take my business elsewhere and encourage all of my family, friends and colleagues to the same.
Dear Aldi Australia,
Chickens are friendly birds, who deserve a life free of inhumane confinement. Like all birds, they deserve the opportunity to indulge in their most basic instincts such as foraging in the grass, spreading their wings, bathing in the dirt, seeing the sun and socialising. A happy hen is a healthy hen! Caged hens DO NOT enjoy such freedom. Please demonstrate that you are above this gruesome practice and cease supporting the battery hen industry, because until you do, I am taking my grocery business elsewhere and encouragng all of my family, friends and colleagues to the same. My family was spending upwards of $6,000 annually at your stores but until you CEASE selling caged eggs, this revenue is being redirected elsewhere. Please consider the possibility of $6,000 multiplied by 1,000, or even 100,000.
