#Just crack an egg costco free#
In calendar 2016 we expect to sell over one billion cage free eggs. Since 2006, we have already substantially increased our percentage of cage‐free eggs: in fiscal 2006 cage‐free eggs represented 2% of eggs we sold and today they represent 26%. The linked statement was published in December 2015 (several months before the April 2016 article), and said:Ĭostco is committed to going cage‐free for its egg procurement. We enforce this through testing and inspection of facilities, done by persons who are independent of the suppliers.
In response to one such query, a Costco representative replied:Ĭostco is committed to the ethical treatment of animals.
After the video’s April 2016 reappearance, concerned customers visited Costco’s page to ask whether the claims were accurate. The length of the investigation, the circumstances under which it was conducted, and the connection (if any) to Costco’s supply chain was not clearly shown. The June 2015 video maintained that Costco was lying to consumers by using “imagery of uncaged chickens” on some packaging however, most Costco egg packaging did not feature that imagery. It concluded that chickens producing eggs for some Costco suppliers were kept in abysmal and abusive conditions, including overcrowding and being kept alongside the mummified corpses of other chickens. The embedded video was published on 9 June 2015 by the Humane Society of the United States about a May 2015 undercover investigation. The video is hard to watch, but making consumers aware of what Costco is selling, is essential in forcing them to make a change in the brand of eggs they are selling and misrepresenting. It reveals that the egg suppliers for Costco keep their chickens in the very worst conditions imaginable … The cruel and unhealthy conditions for the chickens in the following footage, is not only harmful for the animals, but puts the consumer at great risk for Salmonella poisoning. If you are a Costco shopper, the shocking information reported in this footage, is critical for you to be aware of. An undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States, sadly uncovered quite a different reality. The picture used on their cartons depict chickens roaming free in a beautiful field of grass. For the last eight years Costco has claimed that their egg supply came from hens who were cage free. The video you are about to watch below is quite disturbing. On 19 April 2016, the web site Sun Gazing published an article (“THIS Is The Disturbing and Alarming Secret Costco Does Not Want You To Know About Their Eggs!”) and urged readers to “SHARE” it with friends and family: