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I am an investigator
with Mercy For Animals Canada, and for just over 10 weeks I worked undercover
at Creekside Grove Farms in Spruce Grove, Alberta, and Kuku Farms in
Morinville, Alberta–factory farms that produce eggs for Burnbrae Farms–McDonald’s
Canada’s exclusive egg provider for Egg McMuffins.
These two facilities
combined confine more than 200,000 chickens. The egg-laying hens are crammed
together with up to nine others inside tiny wire cages stacked six cages high. Each
bird has less space than a sheet of notebook paper to live her entire
miserable life, unable to spread her wings, walk, play, see the sun, breathe
fresh air or do nearly anything that would make her life even remotely worth
living.
Subjecting sensitive
and social animals to a lifetime of misery and deprivation inside tiny battery
cages is perhaps the cruelest form of institutionalized animal abuse in
existence. In fact, battery cages are so cruel they have been banned
in the entire European Union, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the states of
California and Michigan. Animal welfare experts and veterinarians the world
over have also condemned their use.
Even McDonald’s in
the European Union banned their use–15 years ago! Yet McDonald’s Canada
continues to support this egregious animal abuse.
As the country’s
largest fast-food purchaser of eggs, McDonald’s Canada has the power and
ethical responsibility to end this abusive practice immediately.
Please
sign my petition asking McDonald’s Canada to do the right thing and prohibit
battery cages in its egg supply chain.
Thank you,
”Jennifer”
MFA
Canada Undercover Investigator
