Improvement for Farmed Animals in the South! July 17, 2008
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Good news, people! After more than five months of negotiations with PETA, grocery-store chain Winn-Dixie has announced that it will improve conditions for some chickens, turkeys, and pigs in its supply chain. You can find Winn-Dixie's 520 stores throughout the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
According to its new plan, Winn-Dixie will do the following:
- Give purchasing preference to suppliers that use or switch to controlled-atmosphere killing (the least-cruel method of bird slaughter, for those who don't know) and begin purchasing five percent of its turkeys by the end of 2010 from suppliers that use this method.
- Give purchasing preference to suppliers that don't use gestation crates—restrictive metal enclosures that confine pregnant pigs—and increase the total amount of pig meat that it purchases from crate-free facilities by five percent over each of the next three years (to reach a total of 15 percent).
- Give purchasing preference to producers of cage-free eggs, increase the amount of cage-free eggs that it sells to four percent by the end of 2009 and five percent by the end of 2010, and work toward increasing that amount to 10 percent within the next five years. They are also going to more heavily promote their cage-free eggs in the stores so as to boost sales of them (in turn lowering sales of eggs from caged hens).
Now this doesn't mean the animals are going to live wonderful lives, of course, but some of the worst abuses have been eliminated, which is always a good thing. One step at a time.
To thank Winn-Dixie, you can drop them a line through their on-line customer service form.
♥ Marta
Comments
That is AWESOME that PETA makes so many improvements for the lives of animals. Baby steps is way better than no steps and I am really excited about this! I adore you guys! You are amazing at what you do!!! Thank you!
Posted by: Brittany at July 30, 2008 2:04 PMheeey congratulations!!! really I'm glad by evry succes of you guys, it really gives me hopes to keep going throw helping those voiceless, I'm agree with brittany, little steps count more than no steps, but this is huge! I hope God still help you on this, I know he's proud of you =)
Posted by: shanty at July 30, 2008 6:30 PMThat's good news. Seeing how we shop there. Is PETA going to back off of Winn Dixie now, and is it bad if I put stickers on their meat products? Like the "meat is murder" and others? I don't want Winn Dixie to think I don't appreciate what they have done, I am just trying to get people aware that meat is indeed murder. So should I quit stickering at Winn Dixie? Or just keep doing what I'm doing for the animals?
Thanks. :]
Posted by: marissa at July 30, 2008 6:42 PMThis is great! When I lived in Florida, I used to shop there,but only on rare occasions after we found out about their cruel meat industry. I have also heard that Sam's/Walmart meat is cruel too. Does anyone know anything about that?
xoxo peta2!
thats great to hear! I sent winn-dixie a comment thanking them.
Posted by: Sara at July 30, 2008 7:28 PMThank you!!!PETA makes everyting possible and impossible for all animals.You are the one!!!Thank you!!!
Posted by: Marina at July 31, 2008 4:02 AMThats great!! I'm gonna leave tham a comment thanking them :D yayz!! xD
Posted by: Stephanie at July 31, 2008 10:38 AMWe usually shop at Winn-Dixie quite a bit here in Alabama and its a veyr nice, clean atmosphere. Though the meat and dairy/egg sections freak me out to go past, this is good news and I will definately be telling my mom we should go here more.
WALMART should be a for sure Target.
I have contacted a few of my local Walmarts and got them to carry MorningStar, Boca, e.t.c.! Because I was enraged at their not carrying any vegetarian foods.
They even had a sample day of MorningStar and by coincidence I was there that day and smiled as I took a sample. Me and my friend both ate it in front of quite a crowd to try it and said "We LOVE being vegetarian! This stuff ROCKS!"
Why can't Kroger do this also? Good for Winn-Dixie and Peta. Another victory for us!!
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Ok so it's a step in the right direction for WD. I would call this a victory, but I think it is oversized. I mean this country has hundreds of thousands of meat buyers and consumers. Maybe I sound like a wet blanket, but it seems to me that this victory is a grain of sand in a desert of inhumane animal killing abuse. I guess I dont understand the math, but how has 6 restaraunts/grocery stores making very small changes, 'eliminated' the worst of the abuse of millions of birds?
Posted by: Amanda at July 30, 2008 12:40 PM