VANCOUVER — Six Canadian animal protection agencies have called on A&W Food Services of Canada to stop using eggs from caged hens.
“Enriched cages severely restrict important physical activities including running, flying and wing-flapping and do not permit unrestrained perching and dustbathing,” reads the letter, signed by Animal Justice, the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, Canadians for the Ethical Treatment of Farmed Animals, Humane Society International/Canada, Mercy for Animals Canada and the Vancouver Humane Society, addressed to A&W CEO Paul Hollands.
An online petition calling on A&W to go cage-free has gathered more than 6,000 signatures.
