IHOP Still Using Eggs from Battery Cages
posted by: Aimee Gertsch 101 days ago
Many major restaurant chains have taken steps to be more humane to the animals that supply their food. Most have made the change from using eggs that come from hens housed in battery cages, to using eggs that come from hens that are cage-free.
If you aren't aware of what a battery cage is, it is a cage that is so small the hen has no room to turn around. In fact, they can barely move at all inside the cage, which is about the size of a piece of notepaper.
The Humane Society of the United States did an undercover investigation recently and found that the egg supplier of the national chain, IHOP, had horrible conditions. In addition to still using battery cages, they found filthy conditions, and worse than that, birds forced to live in cages along side of corpses of other birds.
For whatever reason IHOP is not yet using cage free eggs. If you want to join to help influence IHOP to stop using battery cages, The Humane Society has many ways that you can help, including an easy email form to fill out, and the phone numbers of important individuals to call.
Of course, there is also consumer power. You can "vote with your dollars" and stay away from IHOP until they make the change. Gratefully, with help from those who care, The Humane Society of the United States persuaded companies such as Wendy's, Ben and Jerry's, and Trader Joe's to enact cage-free egg policies. There is little doubt that positive changes can be made.
To learn more, please visit their site, where you can watch a video of the undercover expose, as well as take actions to help the cause.
If you aren't aware of what a battery cage is, it is a cage that is so small the hen has no room to turn around. In fact, they can barely move at all inside the cage, which is about the size of a piece of notepaper.
The Humane Society of the United States did an undercover investigation recently and found that the egg supplier of the national chain, IHOP, had horrible conditions. In addition to still using battery cages, they found filthy conditions, and worse than that, birds forced to live in cages along side of corpses of other birds.
For whatever reason IHOP is not yet using cage free eggs. If you want to join to help influence IHOP to stop using battery cages, The Humane Society has many ways that you can help, including an easy email form to fill out, and the phone numbers of important individuals to call.
Of course, there is also consumer power. You can "vote with your dollars" and stay away from IHOP until they make the change. Gratefully, with help from those who care, The Humane Society of the United States persuaded companies such as Wendy's, Ben and Jerry's, and Trader Joe's to enact cage-free egg policies. There is little doubt that positive changes can be made.
To learn more, please visit their site, where you can watch a video of the undercover expose, as well as take actions to help the cause.
Read more: eggs, chickens, animal welfare, ihop, humane society, battery cages
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I ceased eating at Fast Food Joints years ago. Other than an ocasional coffee, and using their "often questionable facilities", I usually try to use "make your own snacks" while on the road. Bread or crackers tuna, peanut butter, and a whole host of other non perishables, that can travel with me. I hail from NY, and still observe some local small farms that are family owned and do not abuse animals. There is no need for that sort of thing. It all boils down to "greed".
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I will not eat at IHOP until they stop using eggs from mistreated chickens.
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Why would you want to eat menstruations from another species anyway?! That's what chickens' eggs are. Ick!
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I have to mention that the belief that the chickens are in cages the size of a piece of paper is simply not true. The cages are shared between several birds so are larger than commonly believed, and they can move around. I do realise that these cages are far from ideal housing for chickens, but compared to other housing systems for chickens (including free range) it has the lowest mortality rates, and causes the least stress to the birds. There are things that stress chickens more than being confined. Free range chickens face high stress and aggression by being housed in such large groups.
I’m not asking for you to stop demanding cage free eggs (especially from these IHOP people that are abusing the system and the animals), just be aware that what you are asking for needs to be improved as well. Free range chickens aren’t the happy hens they are usually pictured as.
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I will not eat at Ihop again.
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This is so sad. It is such a shame that places like IHOP have to set such a bad example to other people, who are starting the restaurant business. Well, they have lost my business, for good now!!!!!!!!
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We should all forgo eggs in our diets and recipes. Kills the profits and forces the evil to shut down.
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Cage free isn't really that much better...The laying hens come from hatcheries that grind up or suffocate male chicks; beak trimming; cruelty; starvation; horrible living conditions with inhumane handling and transport are all still part of it. Why not egg alternatives? Just don't buy foods containing 'farmed' eggs. Ask restaurants for egg-free options and TELL them why you won't eat it. Be sure to thank the restaurants/managers who do accomodate and/or offer other options. Change takes time but consumers CAN make a difference.
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Beware...the "cage-free" label now can be applied to animals who get to breathe fresh air for a certain amount of time each day. Very few chickens, hens, etc. actually are allowed to use their legs and to roam about freely. These fortunate birds are referred to as "pastured." Farm Sanctuary is sponsoring walks all around the country on October 3 to bring attention to the cruelty of factory farming. I'm walking in Chicago. Please join me.
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leslie m., 200 years ago battery cages did not exist. They are the result of modern agribusiness that places profit ahead of compassion. Prior to them, egg production caused no pain to anyone other than the person collecting the eggs when an occasional hen may have pecked at his/her arm, but even that doesn't hurt.
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