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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.
Read more: animal welfare, battery-cages, chickens, eggs, humane society, ihop
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Very interesting thank you!!
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+ add your owni really liked ihop there breakfast is really yummy! the other day i was there with my husband eating breakfast and i got thinkin and wondered if there eggs are real cuz they look so fake from the ones i cook at home so i go my iphone out and looked it up and i was disappointed they were fake i wanted to barf up the eggs i just ate! i will never eat there again! i felt like shit the rest of the day!
i really liked ihop there breakfast is really yummy! the other day i was there with my husband eating breakfast and i got thinkin and wondered if there eggs are real cuz they look so fake from the ones i cook at home so i go my iphone out and looked it up and i was disappointed they were fake i wanted to barf up the eggs i just ate! i will never eat there again! i felt like shit the rest of the day!
i had a great time at ihop but will never go there again. the eggs were totally fake and sick no taste at all they tasted like they should be coming out not going in. and o my hell i went to go in the bathroom and it had not ben cleaned forever and i asked about it when i went to go and the guy said o im sorry i try not to go in there either. it smelled as if someone craped there pants rite on the floor. thats the longest i have ever held my breath but it was worth it ! i am still alive... !!!!!
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".
I will not eat at IHOP until they stop using eggs from mistreated chickens.
Why would you want to eat menstruations from another species anyway?! That's what chickens' eggs are. Ick!
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.
I will not eat at Ihop again.
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!!!!!!!!
We should all forgo eggs in our diets and recipes. Kills the profits and forces the evil to shut down.
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