Tell Target: Animals deserve better!
On a typical egg factory farm, a hen is crammed into a battery cage roughly the size of a microwave with as many as nine other birds, where she is unable to spread her wings for her entire life. Each hen is forced to eat, sleep and defecate in the same limited space and is denied almost everything that is natural to her.
Mother pigs in the pork industry are routinely confined to “gestation crates,” which are small cages that prohibit the sensitive, intelligent mom from even being able to turn around.
These conditions are not only cruel to animals, but they increase the spread of diseases like salmonella, leading public health and food safety organizations to oppose the caging of egg-laying chickens and crating of mother pigs.
Nearly a decade ago, Target pledged to eliminate battery cages and gestation crates from its egg and pork supply chains. However, the company has now changed its mind and decided to keep selling eggs and pork that come from caged chickens and crated pigs indefinitely. This means that millions of chickens and pigs will continue to suffer in squalid, miserable cages and crates for Target even though the company told customers it would do away with allowing such abuse.
TAKE ACTION
Abused animals need your help. Please sign this petition to Brian Cornell, the CEO of Target, using the form below, urging the company to keep its animal welfare promises and stop using cruel cages and crates.