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Pigs deserve better!

Mother pigs in the pork industry are routinely confined to “gestation crates,” which are cages so tiny the pigs are virtually immobilized for nearly their entire lives. Gestation crates prevent mother pigs from even turning around or taking more than a step forward or backward.

In 2017, Oscar Mayer’s parent company (Kraft Heinz) committed to move away from these cruel crates by 2025. However, in recent years, the company did away with this timeline, and reports that only a quarter of its global supply chain has moved away from these crates, with no indication how much (if any) of that is in North America.

This means the vast majority of mother pigs producing Oscar Mayer’s products continue to suffer in squalid, miserable crates even though the company pledged to do away with this abuse.

TAKE ACTION

Animals need your help. Please send a polite message to Miguel Patricio, the CEO of Oscar Mayer’s parent company, using the form below, urging the company to keep its animal welfare promises and stop using cruel gestation crates.

This action alert is for U.S. residents. International advocates, please visit Humane Society International.

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Miguel

Patricios

Kraft Heinz

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Kate

Mitchell

Kraft Heinz

Dear Mr. Patricio,

Many mother pigs in the pork industry are confined in cages (known as “gestation crates”) so small that they can’t even turn around. In 2017, Oscar Mayer committed to move away from these cruel crates by 2025. I am deeply concerned that Oscar Mayer did away with that timeline, and hasn’t shared any progress whatsoever regarding eliminating or reducing gestation crates in North America.

Gestation crates are not only cruel to the animals, but they increase the spread of diseases, which then can sicken people. A landmark United Nations report on pandemic risks noted that the extreme confinement of farm animals—like gestation crates—is one of the top drivers of zoonotic disease emergence.  The American Public Health Association, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and Center for Food Safety have spoken out against gestation crates since they make pigs more susceptible to disease that can then be transmitted to humans.

For these reasons, I’m respectfully asking Oscar Mayer to please honor its original animal welfare commitment and move away from gestation crates by 2025.

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