Waitrose throws its weight behind our campaign to outlaw cages for laying hens.
Waitrose, a pioneer in sourcing eggs from cage-free hens, has joined with other huge names in the food industry to make cages for hens a thing of the past.
Waitrose is the first UK supermarket to publicly support Beatrice’s Bill, legitimising our campaign to ban cages for laying hens.
Waitrose has been a leading light among UK retailers in promoting cage-free systems for hens, and have only supplied free-range eggs, for both shell eggs and ingredients, since 2008.
Their support of Beatrice’s Bill is a natural evolution of their commitment to high animal welfare standards and fruitful collaboration with our corporate relations team and our colleagues at the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation.
Businesses and charities continue to come together to push for better standards for chickens, so that they will be spared some of the worst forms of suffering caused by factory farming.
The bill has previously been endorsed by leading restaurants like Greggs and Nando’s and food companies including Kraft-Heinz and Nestlé, the biggest food company in the world.
Waitrose lending its support, after sourcing only free-range for their own products for over 13 years, continues this trend, and speaks to the relentless progress of the cage-free movement.
Cruel cages, which constrict and frustrate millions of chickens in this country today, will one day be abolished.
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