Walmart is back in the news and once again it’s not pretty. This time the corporate behemoth is being fined over $100 million for violating environmental regulations by disposing of fertilizer, pesticides and bleach in sewage systems across the country.
Pleading guilty to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act, Walmart admitted to disposing of hazardous chemicals in sewage systems and trash receptacles at over 4,000 retail locations.
This certainly isn’t the first time the retail giant has found itself in hot water. For well over a year, Mercy For Animals has been putting the heat on Walmart to phase out its sale of pork from farmers who employ torturous gestation crates. A slew of Walmart’s competitors, from Target and Costco to Kmart, have agreed to end their sale of pork from cruelly crated pigs, but Walmart refuses to budge.
If you’d like to send a message to Walmart that gestation crates need to go, visit WalmartCruelty.com and sign our petition. You can also share this short video narrated by television legend Bob Barker on all your social media channels.
