Dunkin Donuts Supporting Cruelty to Animals?
posted by: Drew Wilson 112 days ago
Dunkin' Donuts is the world's largest coffee and baked goods chain serving more than 3 million customers daily. There are an estimated 6,400 stores in the U.S. alone, offering more than 52 varieties of donuts--and every single donut served contains both egg and dairy products from animals forced to endure miserable conditions on today's massive and mechanized factory farms. Regardless of your personal food choices, I think we can all agree that big companies like Dunkin Donuts need to be held accountable for supporting animal abuse. See the end of the article for ways you can help.
The Demand: No more eggs.
The kick-ass animal activists from Compassion Over Killing have just announced the new campaign. They're pushing for Dunkin Donuts to stop using eggs and add some vegan options to their menus. C.O.K. has successfully convinced Boca Buger to phase out all eggs and pushed Morningstar Farms to dramatically reduce their use of eggs.
Why eggs?
Hens confined in eggs factory-farms are likely the most abused animal on the face of the planet. They are crammed into tiny, wire battery-cages. The birds have no room to turn-around or spread their wings. At birth their beaks are seared off with a hot blade. They live a miserable life of intense confinement and stress. When the hens no longer produce eggs at a rate fast enough for the factory farm owners, they are either shipped off to a brutal slaughterhouse or just ground up to be made into cheap fertilizer. If you are going to make one change in your life to help animals, I urge you remove eggs from your diet and move towards a vegan diet.
Dunkin Donuts Responds
After recieving a huge number of emails and letters from activists, Dunkin Donut's customer service department has responded. They say the company is considering animal-friendly alternatives, but it has not taken any real steps. So keep emailing and sending letters. They are just trying to placate concerned consumers with their customer service hogwash. So don't be disuaded if you get an email saying they are considering changing. Keep on them!
What can you do?
Compassion Over Killing is asking you to contact Dunkin' Donuts to urge the company to stop using eggs and dairy in its donuts as well as offer vegan menu items.
130 Royall Street
Canton, MA 02021
The Demand: No more eggs.
The kick-ass animal activists from Compassion Over Killing have just announced the new campaign. They're pushing for Dunkin Donuts to stop using eggs and add some vegan options to their menus. C.O.K. has successfully convinced Boca Buger to phase out all eggs and pushed Morningstar Farms to dramatically reduce their use of eggs.
Why eggs?
Hens confined in eggs factory-farms are likely the most abused animal on the face of the planet. They are crammed into tiny, wire battery-cages. The birds have no room to turn-around or spread their wings. At birth their beaks are seared off with a hot blade. They live a miserable life of intense confinement and stress. When the hens no longer produce eggs at a rate fast enough for the factory farm owners, they are either shipped off to a brutal slaughterhouse or just ground up to be made into cheap fertilizer. If you are going to make one change in your life to help animals, I urge you remove eggs from your diet and move towards a vegan diet.
Dunkin Donuts Responds
After recieving a huge number of emails and letters from activists, Dunkin Donut's customer service department has responded. They say the company is considering animal-friendly alternatives, but it has not taken any real steps. So keep emailing and sending letters. They are just trying to placate concerned consumers with their customer service hogwash. So don't be disuaded if you get an email saying they are considering changing. Keep on them!
What can you do?
Compassion Over Killing is asking you to contact Dunkin' Donuts to urge the company to stop using eggs and dairy in its donuts as well as offer vegan menu items.
- Call the Company: 800-859-5339
- Send an email: via DunkinCruelty.com
- Send a Letter: Dunkin Brands
130 Royall Street
Canton, MA 02021
- Print out some flyers (pdf) and pass them out at a Dunkin Donuts near you.
- On facebook? Join the Dunkin Cruelty group.
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I used to raise a few chickens and ducks. I loved them all and hated it when one died. My AKC registered Norwegian Elkhound's main job (Oh no! You made your poor dog do any work!) was to protect the flock besides protecting my kids and home. But not everyone can afford a few acres to have poultry and a little vegetable garden. With the ever exploding population and the damage to the environment we'll all be eating flavored pond scum soon if we don't keep our eyes on zero population growth and stopping global warming.
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They not only kill you with saturated fat, but they contribute to the abuse of other mammals.
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LIONEL MANN = Good for you that you have lived such a long life. The animals that you consume, however, aren't so fortunate, are they? I know several people who are in their 80's and they are vegetarians (one is vegan) and they, too are healthy. So, what exactly is your point?
And, yes, I think everyone should not eat meat or animal based products. My concern is for the animals. They are at the mercy of humans and cannot speak for themselves.
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Jackie D - Read this slowly and carefully. Get over yourself. I did not say that anyone who writes an article was talking to me. I was talking about people on this forum who directed their comments at me, mentioning me by name. You are right, no one is forcing me to do anything against my will. However, self-righteous, pompous people like yourself will not win anyone over to their way of thinking. If we want people to be kinder to animals, or make any changes for that matter, we have to approach them in a manner that doesn't preach or talk down to people. Pissing people off will not make them listen. In fact, it will probably make them do the opposite of whatever you want them to do.
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Jackie D - read this slowly and carefully. Get over yourself.
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In the U.K. the Battery Hen Welfare Trust re-homes the lucky few intensive egg-laying hens they can rescue and raises consumer awareness of the use of eggs from battery hens in the food industry.
Always buy Free Range eggs or eggs from a local producer where you can see the conditions the hens live in. I keep backyard hens 8 of whom are rescued ex-batts, they are wonderful characters who are out scratching and sun-bathing as I write.
When you buy ready-made food - always ask if the eggs in it are free-range, read the labels and write to the producers - it works. Hellmans mayonnaise used to be made with battery eggs, after a campaign of polite letter writing led by the BHWT they now only use free-range.
Check out the Battery He Welfare Trust and compassion in World Farming, also the Chicken Out Campaign in the U.K. raising awareness of the plight of poultry raised for meat.
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I miss having chickens. They always laid the best eggs because they were well fed and had a huge yard to roam around.
For people who have the space, I really reccomend keeping a few.
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Elizabeth Irving-Waddleto.You are right about the need to target egg producers. However, both are in the business profiting from the misery of sentient beings, therefore both should be targeted.
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Renee, There's a medical term for people who take general comments as a personal attack. It starts with P. Read this slowly and carefully: No one forcing you to do anything against your will. If you feel strongly that people who write articles are trying to take control of your opinions, or make you do things against your will (ie be kinder to animals) then maybe it's time to see a dr - and leave the rest of us in peace. LOL.
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I believe it is humane to euthanize dieing person. And this is humane for animals as well.
But it is in NO way humane to go and euthanize an animal just because they aren't wanted anymore (or needed). Kristi H was directing this to the slaughter of animals...not the well being of them.
I also think that something being organic is in no way relevant to the quote or this issue itself. (yes i do realize how pesticides have such a drastic effect on the environment and intern animals, but there is really no reason to complicate this issue even more.) People curse liberals and make fun of them because they attack everything before people can associate issues in small increments. I say we attack the TV and broad cast commercials of this "slaughter house injustice".....pretty comparable to the holocaust, except this happens every day and in far more numbers. First up make everyone accept animals DO have FEELINGS and they DO THINK!!!
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