 Dear Friends,
Mike and his Boschveld Chickens lead the way towards Humane Farming for Laying Hens.
In January this year, South African farmer Mike Bosch received world recognition in Brussels for his free range eggs and farming methods.
(click here to read Compassion in World Farming’s interview with Mr Bosch). Mike and his Indigenous Boschveld Chickens are proof that the brutal mutilation of debeaking baby chicks can and must be stopped. (click here to see video clip of debeaking at a farm near Cape Town). This excruciating operation whereby the beak is melted away by being pressed against a red hot blade, is inflicted on 22.8 million chicks in South Africa every year to ‘fit’ them for a life of laying eggs in a battery cage.
Only a ban on battery farming for laying hens can bring a stop to this unconscionable mutilation.
This campaign asks South African supermarkets to follow Woolworths' lead ...
Wait a minute! ~ This just in from Urban Sprout
So there you are; surrounded by posters of poultry basking in their freedom, your conscience and shopping experience clean because you are promised that the eggs you are buying came from free-range chickens. If chickens could smile, I’m sure we would be confronted by an enormous picture of a splendid beaky grin.
Woolworths has long been the forerunner in the promotion and sale of free-range eggs. They are currently renowned and respected for phasing out all battery eggs from their stores and for the longest while we had assumed it was because they had realised that battery farming is cruel and inhumane
Recently it has come to our attention that whilst all the focus seems to be on the actual eggs, Woolworths has neglected to mention the use of battery eggs in their other products. It seems that the eggs that are visible, such as the ones in cartons, are free-range, whilst the ones that are less obvious (at first) contain battery eggs. Actually, every product that contains eggs as an ingredient - except for the egg sandwiches – use battery eggs.
Wendy Hardie, a local filmmaker who is investigating the food industry had this to say about the situation :
When I asked a representative of the Woolworths Good Business Journey, why they didn't then use free range eggs in their salads and products too, they said there had never been a public outcry about this! I said that I thought this might be because people didn't realize it …
READ THIS FULL STORY ON URBAN SPROUT
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.. and start an immediate phase-out of battery eggs from their stores. Your comments will be presented to these directors :
Tessa Chamberlain, GM Sustainable Development, Pick n Pay
Brian Weyers, Marketing Director, Shoprite Checkers
Graham Claassens, National Brands Manager for Spar
Click here to read Compassion in World Farming’s interview with Mr Bosch >>
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